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The Author of this sketch who, for almost a 
quarter of a century, had heen bound by the closest 
bonds of amity with the Keverend Prince, has been 
frequently urged by respected friends, to compose 
and publish a notice of his life. The reason of 
this application to him, doubtless, was the well 
known fact of the great friendship between the 
parties — the circumstances of his having assisted at 
his dying moments — his having twice preached his 
funeral sermon, viz : first, on the day of his in- 
terment; again, on the removal of his remains to 
the new monument; his having lectured several 
times on his life and services, besides his being well 
acquainted with the history of Loretto, and its 
large congregation. 

The writer could not resist any longer the many 
appeals made to him to give to the public all the 
reminiscences he had of his lamented friend. 

Moreover, he became alarmed, lest many traits 
of his life would quickly be forgotten and perish, 
if not at once secured and perpetuated by the press. 
If this labor of love was not attended to presently, 
it was said, that the few remaining contemporaries 
of the Kev. Prince Gallitzin would soon sink into 
the tomb, and thus much important material for 
his life would be lost forever. 

In truth, an English narrative of his career should 
have been published twenty years ago, when all the 
old families and prominent first settlers of his parish 



Vlll PREFACE. 

were still living, and when all the traditions and 
minute circumstances of his missionary toils were 
fresh in the memories of all. 

Though late in performing this office of friend- 
ship, the writer has at last entered upon this pleas- 
ing task of "gathering up the fragments lest they 
be lost." His hope is that this humble — very im- 
perfect sketch will be suggestive — may be the means 
of awakening public attention to the merits of this 
extraordinary man, and raise up some more compe- 
tent biographer who will do justice to his memory. 
Divine inspiration tells us **not to praise a man 
during his life," as if it were said, says St. Augus- 
tin, 'Upraise him after life, glorify him at the end 
of his career, because then praise is more usefully 
bestowed, when the praiser cannot be influenced by 
a motive of flattery, and the praised cannot be 
tempted to elation of heart." Ne laudes. hominem 
in vita sua ; tanquam si dicerei ; Lauda post mor- 
tern — magnificapost consummationem, Duplici enim 
ex causa uiilius est hominuTn magis memorioe laudetn 
dare quam vUce ; ut illo potissimum tempore merita 
sanctitatis extollas, quando nee laudantem adulatio 
moveat, nee laudatum tentet elatio, 

Bedford, Pa., August, 1869. 



dfontcttts. 



I. How Interesting his Life — His Ancestors 

— Prince Demetrius 9 

II. His Mother, Princess Amelia 16 

III. His Birth — Education 25 

IV. His Military Life — His Travels Abroad, 

His Conversion 33 

V. He Becomes an Ecclesiastic — Evidence 

OF HIS Vocation 39 

VI. He Opens his Missionary Career— Esti- 
mate of his Estate 46 

VII. Success of his Colony — He is Recalled 

to Europe, but Declines 56 

VIII. His Hopes of Recovering his Fortune — 

Russian Decree 66 

XI. His Debts and Difficulties 75 

X. His Personal Religion — Virtues 91 

XI. Affliction at the Death of his Mother — 

His Imitation of the Saints 106 

XII. His Pastoral Relations 112 

XIII. His Mode of Travelling — His Interior 

Trials 117 

XIV. His Writings in Defence of Religion 131 

XV. His Happy Death — His Monument 137 

XVI. His Obsequies — Funeral Honors paid 

Him 153 

Autobiography 165 

Appendix 186 

iz 



Chapter I. 



m 



fxkmimQ Ills jjfe—iis Incjsfor^ 



^^^ E are so constituted by 
nature, that we are 
forced to admire and ex- 
tol any arduous, perilous 
project, commenced and car- 
ried on to completion, out of the 
ordinary course of mortals — beyond 
what the common run w^ould at- 
tempt. The discovery of America 
by the wonderful man of Genoar— 
Christopher Columbus ; the achieve- 




10 HIS LIFE, HIS ANCESTOKS, 

merit of American Independence by 
George Washington astonish us by 
the boldness and successful issue of 
the work consummated by these 
almost inspired men. We are not 
or we ought not to be less moved, 
when we pass from the contempla- 
tion of heroism in the worldly to 
that of the moral and religious or- 
der. By the labors of the patriot 
the chains that bind the body fall, 
but by the toils of the spiritual lib- 
erator those that fetter the immor- 
tal soul are broken. And, if we are 
to measure the magnitude of events 
by their results, those effected by 
the heroes of faith infinitely surpass 
all that has been accomplished by 
the demi-gods of fame. The deeds 



PEINCE DEMETRIUS. 11 

of a Francis Xavier, or of a Vincent 
de Paul, can compete with those of 
the most renowned in secular an- 
nals. However little we may be 
given to enthusiasm or to the mar- 
velous, yet we shall be obliged to 
acknowledge that in the life and ca- 
reer of Rev. Prince Demetrius Au- 
gustine de Gallitzin, there is food 
for the most romantically inclined 
mind — for even the most enthusias- 
tic readers of Oriental tales. 

Here, we have had in our midst, 
in Western Pennsylvania, as priest, 
as missionary and founder of a vast 
Catholic colony, a Prince of almost 
fabulous high descent, an heir of a 
long line of princes, generals, heroes 
— a scion of the noblest, proudest 



12 HIS LIFE, HIS ANCESTOES, 

house in Europe, (his ancestors be- 
ing among the most renowned in 
Russian story,) abandoning all that 
is great and dazzling in the estima- 
tion of men for the humble mission- 
ary's obscurity and privations, on 
the top of a wild mountain, without 
the slightest hope or prospect of 
any reward except in the place of 
rewards. I feel and own my entire 
inadequacy to the task of doing jus- 
tice to the services and sacrifices of 
this great ornament of our Ameri- 
can Church ; but there is one thing 
that consoles and emboldens me ; 
the facts of his beautiful career need 
no eloquence — no embellishment — 
they speak for themselves — they go 
direct to our hearts. When we are 



PRINCE DEMETRIUS. 13 

reviewing the lives of great men we 
naturally wish to inquire into the 
sources and origin of their great- 
ness ; and the first thought that en- 
gages our attention is the question, 
who were their progenitors, whence 
their training, who their educators? 
It is thus we go up to the well- 
spring of all their glorious doings 
and darings. 

The Gallitzin family, according to 
the researches of a late writer, de- 
rives its origin from Gedemine, a 
Lithuanian Prince, and can claim 
as branches and descendants, rulers 
in Poland, Hungary and Bohemia. 
Some are known in history, as dis- 
tinguished statesmen ; some were 
Councillors of Peter, the Great; 



14 HIS LIFE, HIS ANCESTORS, 

others, Ambassadors at foreign 
courts, and even reformers and civ- 
ilizers of Russian arbitrary manners 
and institutions. It was a Prince 
Gallitzin that defeated utterly the 
redoubtable Charles XII, of Swe- 
den, on the celebrated battle-field 
of Pultowa. 

But we are more interested in the 
immediate connexions — the parents 
of the missionary prince and pio- 
neer of the Alleghanies. 

His father, Prince Demetrius, was 
Russian Ambassador at the Courts 
of France and the Netherlands, 
Chamberlain and Privy Counsellor 
for the celebrated Catharine II, Em- 
press of Russia. He became unfor- 
tunately the friend of Voltaire and 



PKINCE DEMETEIUS. 15 

Diderot, and for aught we know, 
died, as he had lived, a disciple of 
that atheistical school. These infi- 
del philosophers, during his four- 
teen years' residence at Paris, flat- 
tered his vanity by praising him for 
the interest he took in science. — 
During his long stay in the French 
capital, he made important collec- 
tions of curiosities and antiquities 
to enrich the gallery of Tzareskoe 
Selo, an imperial palace five leagues 
from St. Petersburgh, the favorite 
summer resort of the Emperor. 




Chapter II. 



T is therefore to the 
^^Wfr^^^ other side of the house 
m/k that we have to look for 
the religious and useful 
£0j^ training of our Gallitzin. 
We all know that the mother, if 
enlightened and every way accom- 
plished, has the larger share in 
moulding the future character of 
children for usefulness or fame. — 
We are naturally prone to trace 
their success or failure, on the 
world's stage, to judicious or de- 

16 



HIS MOTHEE, PRINCESS AMELIA. 17 

fective parental training. When we 
recognize the impress of a great 
man in his writings or actions, we 
instinctively ask — who were his 
parents? What did they do for 
him ? Who does not, without feel- 
ing the most thrilling interest hear 
or read any account of Laetitia, the 
mother of Napoleon, the First, or 
of Martha, the mother of Wash- 
ington. 

The mother of the subject of this 
Memoir, was born Countess De 
Schmettan, daughter of one of the 
heroes of Frederick, the Grreat, 
Field Marshal Count De Schmet- 
tan, and of the Countess of Ruffert, 
Her two brothers were distinguish- 
ed officers in the Russian service; 



18 HIS MOTHER, 

one of them fell in the battle of 
Zena. 

We are, in part, indebted for the 
following account of Princess Ame- 
lia, mother of our Gallitzin, to a 
widely circulated work which being 
from a Protestant pen, I prefer 
quoting on this occasion : " This 
lady, born at Berlin, in Prussia, 
August 28th, 1748, was remarkable 
for her literary culture, her grace 
and amiable disposition, her sym- 
pathetic relations with scholars and 
poets ; but above all her ardent 
piety which found its most conge- 
nial element in the mystic and ven- 
erable sanctities of Roman Catholi- 
cism. She took up her residence 
at the city of Munster, in Westpha- 



PRINCESS AMELIA. 19 

lia, where she gathered around her 
a circle of learned companions. She 
largely contributed to the conver- 
sion of De Stolberg to Roman Cath- 
olicism, and called forth that great 
movement which for a considerable 
period characterized many circles 
of German society." 

At the age of four years, she was 
placed for her education at a board- 
ing school, in Breslau, the capital 
of Silesia, on the river Oder. Here 
she remained until she attained her 
ninth year. She had been brought 
up a Catholic from childhood. She 
was distinguished not only for the 
beauty of her person, but also for 
her piety and her edifying frequen- 
tation of the Sacrament of Penance, 



20 ' HIS MOTHER, 

to the reception of which she would 
often bring such deep-felt contrition 
as to be dissolved into tears. 

On one occasion, as she passed 
through the Church to the Confes- 
sional, she was greeted by the voice 
of flattery, which ever since the first 
flatterer in Paradise seldom fails to 
produce evil. She overheard some 
one remark, what an angel! w^ords 
which had upon her future conduct 
the most pernicious influence. She 
became a victim of pride and van- 
ity. She had also subsequently the 
misfortune to fall into the hands of 
an infidel teacher who left nothing 
untried to give her mind an irreli- 
gious bias. Her matrimonial alli- 
ance with Prince Demetrius Gallit- 



PEIlSrCESS AMELIA. 21 

zin contributed still more to expose 
her to the meshes of infidelity. The 
philosopher Diderot, her husband's 
bosom friend, endeavoured very 
much to win the Princess over to 
his atheistical system; but though 
she was more than indifferent on 
the momentous subject of religion, 
her naturally strong mind discov- 
ered the hollowness of his reason- 
ing. It was remarked that she 
would frequently puzzle the infidel 
philosopher, by the little interroga- 
tive Why^ And as he could not 
satisfy her objections, she was de- 
termined thoroughly to examine the 
grounds of revelation. Though hav- 
ing but a slim share of religion her- 
self, she was determined to instruct 
3 



22 HIS MOTHEE, 

her children in some creed ; she 
opened the Bible merely for the 
purpose of teaching her children 
the historical portion of it. 

The beauty of revealed truth, 
notwithstanding the impediments 
of indifference and unbelief which 
it found in her, would sometimes 
strike her — her mind being of that 
mould which, according to Tertul- 
lian, is naturally Christian. It was 
not, however, until 1783 that she 
began seriously to think of religion 
at Munster, in Westphalia, whither 
she had gone to profit by the learn- 
ing and piety of De Furstenberg, 
a celebrated patron of education, 
and that she might superintend 
more effectually the education of 



PRINCESS AMELIA. 23 

her children. Whilst here she was 
attacked by a most alarming sick- 
ness, which threatened her life ; her 
friend, De Furstenberg, sent her 
his confessor. Rev. Dr. Overberg, 
to speak to her on the subject of 
religion. Though no decisive con- 
sequence immediately followed, still 
an impression was made which, in 
due time, God was to develop. — 
She recovered from her malady, 
and, during three years, religion 
was her great and only affair of 
study. It pleased God to open her 
eyes to the truth and beauty of the 
Catholic faith in 1786, through the 
instrumentality of De Furstenberg 
and Overberg, both renowned in 
Germany for their efforts in the 
cause of religion and learning. It 



24 HIS MOTHER, PRINCESS AMELIA. 

was this year she made her first 
communion on the Feast of St. 
Augustine, towards whom she had 
a special devotion. It is to the 
happy influence and bright exam- 
ple of his mother, to whom, under 
God, we must mainly ascribe the 
conversion of young Demetrius. 

As the illustrious Bishop of 
Milan, St. Ambrose, consoled the 
mother of Augustine, when he used 
to say to the weeping Monica, ^'that 
it was impossible for a son to be 
lost for whom so many tears were 
shed ;" so we may believe that the 
pious De Furstenberg cheered, in a 
similar manner, this good lady in 
her intense solicitude for the spirit- 
ual welfare of a son whom she so 
tenderly loved. 



Chapter III. 



is I irtIi~|;;Hucation. 




HE Rev. Prince Deme- 
trius Augustine De 
Gallitzin was born the 
22d of December, 1770, 
at the Hague in Holland? 
where his father, Prince Demetrius, 
was Ambassador of Russia at that 
time. He was decorated with mili- 
tary titles from his very birth. It 
being the privilege of Ambassadors 
that their children should be con- 
sidered citizens of the country which 
they represent abroad, no matter 
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25 



26 HIS BIRTH, EDUCATIOlSr. 

where born, the Rev. Prince always 
professed himself a Russian,' though 
he evinced strong propensities to- 
wards Germany, and gave the name 
of Munster to one of the towns on the 
mountain in honor of the German 
city of this name, where his good 
mother so long resided, and not, as 
some erroneously think, on account 
of Munster, a Province of Ireland. 
When the young prince and heir 
of the great Gallitzin house first 
saw the light, what brilliant hopes, 
what magnificent speculations were 
entertained by the jubilant parents 
as to the future of the new-born babe! 
The ambitious father, no doubt, 
thought that he had now secured 
"a vessel of election" to carry out 



HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION. 27 

his worldly aspirations — an heir 
who was to perpetuate his name, 
and fame, and the honor of his 
house. But how conflicting are 
often man's w^ys with those of hea- 
ven ! How opposite to the plans 
of God were those of this carnal- 
minded father, as we shall see in 
the beautiful life of his son. 

Born and bred in the schismati- 
cal Greek Church, and'subsequently 
a disbeliever in revelation, in one of 
his early works, he thus alludes to 
his religious difficulties, and his 
final escape from the snares of infi- 
delity in his younger days—" I 
lived during fifteen years in a Cath- 
olic country, under a Catholic gov- 
ernment, where both the spiritual 



28 HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION. 

and temporal power were united in 
the same person. The reigning 
Prince in that country was our 
Archbishop. During a great part 
of that time, I was not a member 
of the Catholic Church. An inti- 
macy which existed between our 
family and a certain celebrated 
French philosopher, had produced 
a contempt for religion. Raised in 
prejudice against Revelation, I felt 
every disposition to ridicule those 
very principles and practices which 
I have adopted since. I only men- 
tion this circumstance to convince 
you that my observations at that 
time being those of an enemy, and 
not of a bigoted member of the 
Catholic Church, are, in the eyes of 



HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION, 29 

a Protestant, the more entitled to 
credit ; and from the same motive, 
I shall also add, that during those 
unfortunate years of my infidelity, 
particular care was taken not to 
permit any clergyman to come near 
me. Thanks to the God of infinite 
mercy, the clouds of infidelity were 
dispersed and revelation adopted in 
our family. I soon felt the neces- 
sity of investigating the diiferent 
religious systems, in order to find 
the true one. Although I was born 
a member of the Greek Church, and 
although all my male relations were 
either Greeks or Protestants, yet 
did I resolve to embrace that reli- 
gion only which, upon impartial 
inquiry, should appear to me to be 



30 HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION. 

the pure religion of Jesus Christ. 
My choice fell upon the Catholic 
Church, and at the age of about 
seventeen, I became a member of 
that Church." 

With regard to his early educa- 
tion, it must have been most felicit- 
ous and extraordinary. And in 
proof of this, I have only to men- 
tion that it was under the guidance 
of Princess Amelia, his enlightened 
mother, then standing in the front 
rank of the most literary lady cele- 
brities in Germany. In her re- 
tirement at Munster, then famed 
for its ^learned circles, this incom- 
parable woman devotes herself to 
the education of her two children, 
Maria Anna, afterwards Princess 



HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION". 31 

De Salm, and Prince Demetrius, 
the future humble missionary of 
Western Pennsylvania. 

The choicest spirits of the' age 
contributed to the literary culture 
and training of the young Gallit- 
zin, Hemsterhuis, Hamar, Jacobi, 
Goethe, the renowned poet, formed 
a part of the learned Court which 
his mother attracted around her 
during her sojourn in the city of 
Munster. Remarkable herself for 
mental acumen and high attain- 
ments in belles lettres^ she under- 
took, and most happily carried on 
the primary and most important 
department of the education of her 
children. She availed herself of 
all the educational lights and facili- 



32 HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION. 

ties of the times. The best schools 
of Munster and the Hague were 
brought into requisition by her, to 
promote the advancement of her 
son in polite letters. . 'Nor was his 
religious education entirely neg- 
lected in his secular course. Un- 
der the wise direction of Baron 
De Furstenberg, Grand Vicar and 
Premier of the Prince-Bishop of 
Munster, and of Rev. Dr. Over- 
berg, her Confessor, celebrated for 
his zeal in promoting the cause of 
education and founding schools ; 
the Princess Amelia prosecuted 
most earnestly the two principal 
objects she had in view, viz: her 
own and her children's sanctifica- 
tion, together with their thorough 
intellectual training. 



Chapter IY. 



iliiarg | jfc--|/au«ls" ||onccrsion. 



FTER having gone 
through a brilliant 
^"^ educational course, and 
being destined for the 
profession of arms, in the 
Russian service, the time when he 
was to make his military debut 
having arrived, our Gallitzin was 
appointed aid-de-camp to the Aus- 
trian General Von Lilien, who com- 
manded an army in Brabant, at 
the opening of the first campaign 
against the French Jacobins. The 




33 



34 MILITARY LIFE, 

sudden death of the Emperor Leo- 
pold, and the murder of the King 
of Sweden, by Ankerstrom, both 
suspected to be the work of Jaco- 
bins, who had declared war against 
all kings and all religions, caused 
a very strict order to be issued by 
Austria and Prussia, to exclude all 
foreio-ners from military offices. In 
consequence of this order, the young 
Gallitzin is debarred from partici- 
pation in this war. Russia not 
taking any part in it, there was no 
opportunity for him to continue in 
his military career. It was there- 
fore determined on by his parents, 
that he should spend two years in 
travelling for his improvement, and 
as the grand tour through Europe 



TEAVELS, CONVEKSION. 35 

had become impracticable, on ac- 
count of the war, it was resolved 
that he should undertake a voyage 
to America, the West Indies, and 
other foreign lands. Thus, in the 
designs of heaven do we owe our 
greatest missionary to the greatest 
calamity, viz : to the French Revo- 
lution, and the convulsions caused 
by the infidels of Europe. When 
he came to this country, he had 
nothing else in view but to pursue 
his tour through the States, to 
qualify himself for his original vo- 
cation, a military life — to fit himself 
for his exalted position at home. 
But how difi'erent from ours are 
the adorable designs of Providence 
which turns events and circum- 



36 MILITARY LIFE, 

stances to the accomplishment of 
its inscrutable purposes. At the 
age of 22, this young prince for- 
saking parents, friends and sacred 
home, resolves to visit the New 
World, which Washington and his 
brave companions in arms had 
lately freed from British thraldom. 
He embarks at Rotterdam, in Hol- 
land, on the 18th of August, 1792, 
and lands in Baltimore, October 
the 28th, provided with letters of 
introduction to Bishop Carroll. He 
flies from the turmoils and revolu- 
tions of the Old World, in company 
with the saintly Father Brosius ; 
and no sooner does he approach 
our shores, than inspired from 
above, he looks down with con- 



TRAVELS, CONVERSION. 37 



tempt upon all sublunary things, 
and renounces the world with all 
its facinations and charms, which 
for him meant the relinquishment 
of a princely fortune — the renuncia- 
tion of the loftiest rank of nobility, 
that he, who from his cradle was 
destined for the highest military 
grade in the imperial army, must 
now give up everything prized by 
earth, and embrace evervthino; con- 
trarv to what the world admires. 
I am almost tempted to apply to 
this converted Russian Prince, 
the words of Remigius to Clovis. 
" Bend thy neck, proud Sicam- 
brian, to the yoke of the all-power- 
ful God, and trample under thy 

feet the gods thou hast hitherto 
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38 MILITARY LIFE, TRAVELS, &C. 

adored." Thy sword and thy hon- 
ors, Gallitzin ! thy hopes and 
thy aspirations renounced in obedi- 
ence to the call of heaven, shall 
henceforth for thee form a more 
acceptable sacrifice to the most 
High, than all other victims that 
could be offered. '' For doth the 
Lord desire holocausts and victims, 
and not rather that the voice of the 
Lord should be obeyed. For obe- 
dience is better than sacrifices, and 
to hearken rather than the fat of 
rams." 



Chapter V. 



jccomcs an f cclcsiastic~f tiidenre 
of jBocatiott* 

M^^ received the 

n^-i^i'W^^ most finished educa- 
tion for a man of the 
world, " one befitting his 
rank and expectations, and 
that particularly qualified him for 
a military life — being learned in all 
that was required to form an elo- 
quent and accomplished gentleman 
of the last century," he is well pro- 
pared, ripe and ready for undergo- 




40 AN ECCLESIASTIC, 

ing the discipline of an ecclesiasti- 
cal education. 'Not to speak of his 
knowledge of the ancient classics, of 
mathematics, and his acquaintance 
with the fine arts, painting, draw- 
ing, music, &c., he could speak with 
fluency, and write w^ith elegance, 
the modern languages, German, 
French, Italian, English. En- 
riched thus with the spoils of 
Greece and Rome — with all the ap- 
pliances of the best educational 
training — completely fitted for any 
profession whatever, he entered, as 
Theological student, the well-known 
Seminary of St. Sulpice, at Balti- 
more, where the elite of French 
Priests, the JN'agots and Tessiers, 
refugees from revolutionary France, 



EVIDENCE OF I'OCATION. 41 

had just founded a lay-college and 
ecclesiastical house. 

The determining cause of his 
abandoning his brilliant fortunes 
and embracing the priestly state, is 
related with great candor by him- 
self, in a brief autobiography which 
he has left behind him, and from 
which I quote the following: "Hav- 
ing landed in Baltimore, October 
28th, with letters of introduction to 
Right Rev. Bishop Carroll, I had 
nothing in view but to pursue my 
journey through the States, and to 
qualify myself for my original vo- 
cation, the profession of arms. — 
However, the unexpected and in- 
credible success of the Jacobins, the 
subversion of social order and reli- 



42 AN ECCLESIASTIC, 

gion, and the dreadful convulsions 
in all the countries of Europe, on 
one side, compared with the tran- 
quil, peaceable, happy condition of 
the United States, together with 
some serious considerations natu- 
rally suggested by those events, on 
the vanity of worldly grandeur and 
preferment, and many other things 
which would be too tedious to men- 
tion, caused me, with the advice of 
the Rt. Rev. Bishop Carroll, to re- 
nounce my schemes of pride and 
ambition and to embrace the cleri- 
cal profession for the benefit of the 
American Mission." 

In taking this irrevocable-import- 
ant step, he was actuated by the 
same motives that swayed a Xavier 
or a Francis Borgia. In this mo- 



EVIDENCE OF VOCATION. 43 

ment of his perpetual sacrifice of 
himself to God's glory, the feelings 
of his inmost soul may be gathered 
from a letter which he wrote at the 
time to a clergyman of Munster in 
Germany. In it '' he begs him to 
dispose his mother for the step he 
had finally taken, and informs him 
that he had sacrificed himself, with 
all that he possessed, to the service 
of God and the salvation of his 
neighbor in America, where the 
harvest was so great and the labo- 
rers so few — where the Missionary 
had to ride forty or fifty miles a 
day and undergo difficulties and 
dangers of every description. He 
adds that he doubted not his call, 
as he was willing to submit himself 
to such arduous labors." 



44 AN ECCLESIASXIC, 

It was in the ecclesiastical semi- 
nary already mentioned, that he 
pursued his theological studies, and 
with what success we may judge 
from the testimony of his profes- 
sors. To his inquiring mother, 
Princess Amelia, his learned and 
venerable Superior wrote, shortly 
after his ordination, as follows : " I 
never brought to the altar a candi- 
date for Holy Orders about whose 
vocation I am so certain as I am of 
that of your son. This is also the 
opinion of Bishop Carroll, and of 
all who know him." The very use- 
ful and widely celebrated tracts 
which he afterwards published in 
defence of religion, attest the solid- 
ity of his theological studies at St. 



EVIDENCE OF VOCATION. 45 

Sulpice. He must have exceedingly 
captivated the esteem of the good 
Sulpitians, since we find it was se- 
riously contemplated by them to 
make him a member of their illus- 
trious Institute. But heaven had 
marked him for another and wider 
field of usefulness. Bishop Carroll, 
who had imposed hands upon him 
the 18th of March, 1795, interfered, 
and the wants of the American 
Church were so urgent, that strong 
as were the inducements to devote 
himself to sanctity and science in 
the seclusion of St. Sulpice, he 
thought himself obliged to make 
another sacrifice, and embrace the 
poverty and privations of a Mis- 
sionary in the United States. 
5 



Chapter VI. 

Istimate Df his tsiixk. 

have some idea of the 
extent of his mission 
and labors, let us forget 
for a moment the present 
cheering scene which Wes- 
tern Pennsylvania presents — a 
flourishing Diocese with a Bishop 
— one hundred and ten priests, and 
as many churches and its numerous 
excellent educational and religious 
institutions. What now constitutes 




46 



MISSIONARY CAEEER, &C. 47 

the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Erie, 
and a large part of the Harris- 
burgh new Episcopal See, was then 
the missionary field of a single 
priest — Rev. Prince Gallitzin. If 
we except the station at Youngs- 
town, Westmoreland, where the 
Rev. Mr. Brawers had settled a 
few years before, there was not, 
from Conawago, in Adams County, 
to Lake Erie — from the Susque- 
hanna to the Potomac, a solitary 
priest, church or religious estab- 
lishment of any kind when he 
opened his missionary career. — 
From this statement we may con- 
ceive some idea of the incredible 
privations and toils which he had 
to encounter in visiting the various 



48 MISSIONARY CAREER, 

widely remote points where some 
few Catholics happened to reside. 

Our Rev. Prince first exercised 
the holy ministry in the time-hon- 
ored settlement of Conawago. He 
subsequently illustrated whole dis- 
tricts in the several States of Mary- 
land, Virginia and Pennsylvania. 
Tired of these isolated efforts — 
this desultory warfare in planting 
the cross, he chose to concentrate 
his energies on a single locality — 
on one point, viz : the wild, bleak 
and inhospitable regions of the Al- 
leghany, in the year 1799. He was 
strongly opposed to, and bewailed 
the fatal custom of immigrants 
stopping in the Eastern cities, in- 
stead of making for the interior Of 



HIS ESTATE. 49 

the country, and thus becoming in- 
dependent owners of the soil. He 
was deeply impressed with the con- 
viction that it was by colonization 
— by forming Catholic settlements, 
that the Church was best propa- 
gated and rooted in this country. 
A spiritual empire — a Catholic 
colony of vast dimensions was the 
bright vision that dazzled his ar- 
dent imagination and filled his 
whole soul. How natural it was 
for him, at this moment, to call to 
mind his almost boundless landed 
estate in Russia, and wish only 
that he had it here, in his adopted 
country, that he might expend it 
for the extension of Christ's king- 
dom — for the conversion of souls. 
5* 



50 MISSIONAEY CAEEER, 

His estate as valued by three of 
his friends, noblemen of the highest 
rank, whom he had appointed as 
his attorneys, consisted : 

1st. Of seventy thousand rubles 
in money. 2d. In real property, 
the village of Lankoif, in the Gov- 
ernment of Waladmir, and the vil- 
lages Fabanzin and JN'ikulskin, in 
the Grovernment of Kostrom, with 
all the lands, mills and other pro- 
perty thereto belonging, with one 
thousand two hundred and sixty 
male subjects. 

When he began to make a per- 
manent abode on his mountain fast- 
ness, he found but a few families, 
scattered at wide intervals. His 
theatre of missionary enterprise 



HIS ESTATE. 51 

was almost an interminable, howl- 
ing, trackless wilderness. He se- 
lected for his residence a tract of 
land left to the Church by a pious 
family, originally from Maryland, 
the foundress of so many Western 
Catholic colonies. A rude little 
wooden church of a few feet was 
sufficient to contain the small flock 
that first came to worship on this 
range of the Alleghany mountains. 
Of this humble beginning, he 
gives the following account to 
Bishop Carroll, in a letter dated 
1809. "Our Church," says he, 
"which was only begun in the 
harvest, was finished fit for divine 
service the night before Christmas. 
It is about forty-four feet long by 



52 MISSIONARY CAREER, 

twenty-five feet, built of white pine 
logs with a shingle roof. I kept 
service in it on Christmas day for 
the first time to the very great 
satisfaction of the \vhole congrega- 
tion, w^ho seemed very much moved 
at a sight which they never saw 
before. 

" There is also a house built for 
me, sixteen feet by fourteen, be- 
sides a little kitchen and stable. I 
have now, thanks be to God, a little 
home of my own for the first time 
since I came to this country." 

The furniture of this ''little 
home," supplied by his people, no 
doubt was similar to that prepared 
for the prophet Eliseus, by the good 
woman in the Book of Kings, who 



HIS ESTATE. 53 

said to her husband, '' I perceive 
this is a holy man who often pass- 
eth by us, let us therefore make a 
little chamber and put a bed in it 
for him, and a stool and candle- 
stick, that when he cometh to us, 
he may abide there." Yet, we may 
easily believe the Rev. Prince was 
as proud of his Church of pine logs, 
forty-four by twenty-five, and of his 
little cabin of sixteen by fourteen, 
as his . quondam master, the Em- 
peror Alexander, could possibly be 
of any of his grand palaces in and 
around St. Petersburg. 

His rough pine log chapel in the 
wild bleak woods of the Alleghany, 
presents a singular contrast to the 
Gallitzin Chapel of St. Petersburg, 



54 MISSIONAKY CAREEK, 

as described by Madame Swetchine, 
in ber interesting correspondence. 
This Russian lady became a Roman 
Catholic in France. ^'Speaking of 
prayer, I never knew so many cir- 
cumstances to unite in disposing 
me to it, as on the occasion of the 
consecration of Prince Gallitzin's 
Chapel, which I attended this 
morning. I have never witnessed 
a more magical effect — the graceful 
form of the chapel which is deco- 
rated with simple elegance; the 
mellow golden light with which it 
is irradiated; the melodious voices, 
issuing one knew not whence ; the 
quiet pomp of the service; the si- 
lence which piety demands and 
maintains ; in short, a species of 



HIS ESTATE. 55 

actual enchantment, whose rennem- 
brance even now transports me. 
It is only religious thoughts which 
can produce this effect, and it is 
always wonderful. The very words 
which stir to their depths the souls 
of the simple and ignorant denizens 
of the desert, seemed to-day to fix 
the attention of frivolous spirits 
and excite emotion in the ener- 
vated and perhaps, tainted souls 
of creatures intoxicated by pros- 
perity." 




Chapter VII. 



ucass of his l^^olong— I s |[erancd to 
luro^c, but jedines. 

HE character of the 
Rev. Prince for holi- 
ness and zeal, the report 
of his extraordinary sac- 
rifices for conscience's sake, 
soon awakened public attention ; 
and numbers flocked from all parts 
to place themselves under his spiri- 
tual standard. They were gener- 
ally penniless, friendless, house- 
less ; but they ever found in the 




66 



HIS COLONY, &C. 57 

expansive charity of the generous 
Gallitzin, a welcome and a home, 
even when he himself was disin- 
herited and proscribed by his for- 
mer sovereign, Alexander, the Au- 
tocrat of all the Russias. 

To widen the pale of his contem- 
plated Catholic colony, he found it 
was necessary for him to secure ex- 
tensive tracts of land for the daily 
arriving colonists or '^ movers." 
These Alleghany lands were owned 
by opulent individuals in eastern 
cities, on whose indulgence as to 
the payment therefor, he had often 
to throw himself. 

How his impulsive heart now 
yearned to possess his birth-right, 
his immense inheritance to spend it 
6 



58 HIS COLONY, 

all for religion on his chosen moun- 
tain ; but he had become a Catholic 
priest^ and for a Russian citizen to 
commit this crime dooms him to 
confiscation — to proscription, as it 
did the first Christians under Nero 
and Diocletian. 

However, he strongly hoped that 
through the blessing of Divine 
Providence, he might one day ob- 
tain from the tyrant's grasp, some 
portion of his vast estates, that 
thereby he might be enabled to 
achieve some important, perma- 
nent good for the interests of re- 
ligion. Through the exertions of 
powerful friends in Russia, viz: the 
Imperial Counts Frederick Leopold 
De Stolberg and Clemens Augustus 



RECALLED TO EUROPE, &C. 59 

De Mervelt, he received at last, a 
portion of his large fortune ; and 
all of it was faithfully spent for the 
glory of God, in furthering his great 
object, a Catholic settlement of the 
vastest proportions. Calculating 
now upon the regular remittance of 
funds arising from the sale of his 
estates in Europe, he undertook to 
purchase vast bodies of land. He 
provided, at his own cost, for the 
new settlers, articles of clothing, 
medical stores, flour mills, saw- 
mills, and other conveniences un- 
known before in that region, where 
the newly arrived colonists had to 
travel forty or fifty miles into the 
adjacent counties for their bread 
stuffs and other necessaries. 



60 HIS COLONY 



We may conceive how devoted 
he was to his severe self-denjang 
life on the desolate summits of the 
Alleghany, when we are told, that 
he could not be prevailed on to 
abandon his Mission-field by a 
temptation of the most pressing 
character, urged by every kind of 
influence calculated to make him 
yield. 

On the 6th of March, 1803, his 
father. Prince Demetrius, suddenly 
died at Brunswick, in Saxony. In 
consequence of this event, the 
friends of our Rev. Prince in the 
Old World assured him that it was 
absolutely necessary for him to re- 
turn as soon as possible to Europe. 
As the only son of the deceased 



RECALLED TO EUROPE, &C. 61 

Prince, he was called by every mo- 
tive of affection, honor and interest 
to make a voyage to Europe, in 
order to secure the vast possessions 
inherited from his father. 

His mother, Princess Amelia, 
wrote to him a most affectionate 
letter, in which, as an inducement 
for him to visit the Old World, she 
set forth, in glowing terms, the ad- 
vantages which such a voyage would 
bring to him in furthering his zeal- 
ous aspirations. The recovery of 
his princely fortune, she said, would 
materially advance his philantropic 
projects of colonization. 

She even resolved to apply to 
the Russian Emperor for permis- 
sion for her son to re-visit his 
6* 



62 HIS COLONY, 

country, and she succeeded in her 
appeal — a proof of her extraor- 
dinary influence at the Russian 
Court, especially when we bear in 
mind the stringent laws of this des- 
potic government on the subject of 
expatriation. 

According to a Ukase promul- 
gated by the Czars, " Every noble- 
man going beyond the bounds of 
the empire for purposes not con- 
nected with the pursuits of trade, 
was only allowed to depart for a 
certain specified time, not exceed- 
ing five years, upon a presentation 
of several hundred roubles to the 
foundling hospital. Every Russian 
subject must instantly return at the 
citation of the police; for the in- 



RECALLED TO EUROPE, &C. 63 

fringement of this rule, his prop- 
erty is confiscated and his person 
liable to exile."* 

The Princess being fully aware 
of the great influence which Rt. 
Rev. Bishop Carroll and Dr. JN'a- 
got, his former superior, had over 
him, wrote also to both these dis- 
tinguished characters to use their 
combined efforts to prevail upon 
him to return immediately to Rus- 
sia. Impelled by her entreaties, 
Bishop Carroll summoned to Bal- 
timore our Apostle of the Alle- 
ghanies. He promptly abandons 
his mountain home at the bidding 
of his ecclesiastical superior. He 
humbly and modestly states his 

* " The Czar and his Court." 



64 ' HIS COLONY, 

reasons for not complying with the 
attractive invitation to return to his 
friends and country. His reasons 
were substantially these : " He was 
the cause," he said in reply, ^'of a 
large number of Catholic families 
settling in a wild, uncultivated re- 
gion, where they formed a parish 
of considerable extent. The Legis- 
lature had even contemplated to 
erect into a county seat his newly 
founded town of Loretto, and great 
numbers were added to the settle- 
ment." The illustrious Prelate was 
convinced by the reasons which he 
gave for declining a European trip, 
however flattering it might be per- 
sonally to him. He accordingly 
wrote to his beloved mother, Prin- 



KECALLED TO EUROPE, &C. 65 

cess Amelia, a most filial letter, in 
which he says, '' Whatever I might 
gain by the voyage to Europe, in a 
temporal point of view, cannot, in 
my estimation, be compared with 
the loss of a single soul that might 
be occasioned by my absence." 



.^^#% 


^i^XSIt^jj^ 



Chapter VIII. 



ogfs of ][crctim«0 his lortuiif— 




usstan mmL 



T the request of Prin- 
cess Amelia, he had 
appointed the following 
conspicuous noblemen as 
his agents for the recovery 
of his inheritance : Baron De Furs- 
tenberg, Grand Vicar, Prime Min- 
ister to the Elector of Cologne, and 
the Imperial Counts Frederick Leo- 
pold De Stolberg and Clemens Au- 
gustus De Mervelt, who readily 

66 



HIS FOETUNE, RUSSIAN DECREE. 67 

accepted the commission, and zeal- 
ously labored to bring it to a suc- 
cessful close. Soon, however, they 
had to send him disastrous intelli- 
gence. They dispatched to him the 
Decree of the Russian Senate at St. 
Petersburgh, which can compete 
with any one ever issued by a Ro- 
man Senate against the first Chris- 
tians, under the persecuting Empe- 
rors. The following letter which he 
received from his illustrious agents, 
dated 1808, contains the Decree : 

'^ The question concerning your 
and the Princess, your sister's, 
claim to your father's property, 
is so determined by the Senate of 
St. Petersburgh that you, dearest 
Prince, in consequence of your hav- 



68 . HIS FOETUNE, 

ing embraced the Catliolic faith and 
the clerical prof ession^ &c., cannot be 
admitted to the possession of your 
deceased father's property, and that 
therefore your sister, the Princess, 
is to be considered the sole heiress 
to the said estate, and is to be put 
in possession of the same. The 
Council of State has given the same 
decision, and the Emperor, by his 
sanction, has given the sentence the 
force of law. 

" The Princess has, by the laws 
of Russia, perfect control over the 
income, but cannot give the prop- 
erty away. However, she is at 
liberty to sell it, and to dispone of 
the moneys arising from the sale. 
You see, then, dearest Prince, that 



EUSSIAN DECREE. 69 

you are only nominally excluded. 
Your dear and respected mother 
often thought it possible and proba- 
ble that the decision would fall out 
in this way, and was wont to say, 
'' It is immaterial whether the sen- 
tence of Russia be pronounced in 
favor of both my children or only 
of my daughter. My son can lose 
nothing by it." Even in Russia 
the business is so considered. We, 
therefore, congratulate you on the 
happy issue of this business, with- 
out minding the killing letter of 
the law ; as in this case the spirit 
of justice and charity makes up the 
loss to you." 

In the first ages of the Church, 
those Christians who nobly suffered 
7 



70 HIS FORTUNE, 

for Christ's sake, in fortune, life or 
limb, were hailed and honored in- 
discriminately under the common 
title of "Confessors." In subse- 
quent times, whilst the glorious 
name of '^Martyrs" or witnesses 
was reserved for those who had 
generously shed their blood for 
Christ, the honorable appellation 
of "Confessors" was bestowed 
upon those who suffered persecu- 
tion — who were sentenced to ban- 
ishment or were despoiled of all 
their goods for conscience's sake. 
And, assuredly, we may be allowed 
to accord this title to the devoted 
Gallitzin, who, for the Catholic 
faith and the priesthood, incurred 
imperial wrath and the forfeiture of 
all his goods. 



RUSSIAN DECREE. 71 

He was still in hopes that he 
would receive from Europe at least 
the wreck of his princely property. 
His expectations were chiefly based 
upon the prospect of eluding the 
barbarous decree of the Russian 
Senate, according to the favorable 
interpretation put upon it by his 
noble friends Furstenberg, De Stol- 
berg and Mervelt. His hopes were 
yet more confirmed by a letter from 
his sister, Princess Maria Anna. — 
''I need not,'^ she says, ^'repeat to 
you that you may be perfectly easy 
if we only receive the property. 
Whether under your name or my 
name, makes no diiference amongst 
us ; I shall divide with you faith- 
fully, as I am certain you would 



72 HIS FORTUNE, 

with me. Such was the will of our 
deceased father, and of our dearest 
mother ; and such also shall be the 
desire of my affectionate love and 
devotedness towards you, my dear- 
est brother." 

Our Reverend Prince also re- 
ceived from her, after the sentence 
of his disinheritance, letters full of 
assurance of her good will towards 
him. In one of them she thus con- 
cludes : " I flatter myself more and 
more with the hope that I shall die 
easy and content, when reflecting 
that God has spared my days in 
order to save for you a property 
which you certainly intend to spend 
for His glory, and wish to have 
only for this purpose." 



EUSSIAIS" DECREE. 73 

The news of her marriage with 
Prince De Salm damped his buoy- 
ant hopes, as he had believed that 
his sister (forty-eight years old) 
would never marry, but remain in 
"single blessedness/' He was, 
however, cheered by a letter which 
he received from her after her un- 
expected matrimonial alliance." — 
'' Dearest brother," she says, " my 
new state of life will not cause the 
least alteration in the relation that 
exists between you and me. My 
husband is too noble-minded to 
have sought anything else, by form- 
ing this connexion, only a help- 
mate and a friend, would have it^ 
that I should keep full possession 
of my property, and he declared^ 
7* 



74 HIS FORTUNE, EUSSIAN DECREE. 

before our marriage, that you 
should lose nothing by it." 

The marriage of his sister with 
Prince De Salm proved unfortu- 
nate. A bankrupt and totally in- 
solvent, he absorbed all his wife's 
large fortune and blasted the hopes 
of her worthy brother. All the 
resources on which he calculated, 
as the means of sustaining and fur- 
thering the prosperity of his dear 
mountain mission, were swamped 
by this gambling, profligate Ger- 
man Prince. It is true he received 
from his sister some casual remit- 
tances, but they were few and far 
between — trivial in the extreme 
when compared to what he was 
justly entitled to. 



Chapter IX. 



BcHs ami |i||lculiics» 



o; Ji/ o^r icy^^ (C^ 



OW he got into his 
t(2J\@ difficulties, he informs 
W^2, ^^ himself, in a letter to 
Bishop Carroll: "Having, 
shortly after my father's 
decease, contracted for land to a 
large amount, and that at a time 
when it was morally impossible to 
foresee the vexatious steps and at- 
tempts of our relations to wrest 
from our hands the estate lawfully 
derived from our ancestors, I find 
myself suddenly involved without 

75 



76 HIS DEBTS 

any possibility of fulfilling my con- 
tracts, unless by exposing for sale 
the very lands I had purchased. 
This method I tried, as soon as the 
hopes of getting money from Eu- 
rope had vanished. But the gene- 
ral depression of business and 
scarcity of money rendered my en- 
deavors nearly fruitless. My debts 
increased from year to year, owing 
to unavoidable expenses and accru- 
ing interest; yet the astonishing 
indulgence of my creditors, and the 
happy news of the recovery of our 
estate, kept up my spirits, and 
caused me to entertain no small 
hopes of a speedy and favorable 
change. No doubt such a change 
will take place, but it will be, in all 



AND DIFFICULTIES. 77 

probability, too late to prevent the 
greatest distress to myself as well 
as to some of my creditors." 

It was in consequence of the 
flattering, but fallacious prospects 
which I have stated, that he was 
induced to involve himself heavily 
in debt. It was on the strength of 
them that he went on purchasing 
wide tracts of land; disposing of 
them and reserving them for Cath- 
olic settlers, and encouraging the 
faint-hearted amongst them to re- 
main, at every possible risk and 
pecuniary loss to himself. The oc- 
cupants of the farms, being almost 
always poor, were unable to pay 
him any thing on the purchase 
money ; and the lands which were 



78 HIS DEBTS 

often purchased from the original 
owners at too high a rate proved 
unproductive. But this did not 
detract any thing from the merit 
of the princely provider. 

The privations and sufferings of 
these pioneers of the wilderness 
were sometimes extreme. Mur- 
murs and complaints were occa- 
sionally heard; but when soldiers 
see their generals and officers brav- 
ing the same fatigues and dangers 
as themselves, they freely submit 
to every hardship ; even so the 
Alleghany colonists were softened 
down, when they witnessed their 
apostolic leader, the self-sacrificing 
Gallitzin, suffering with them and 
faring infinitely worse. Their re- 



AND DIFFICULTIES. 79 

pinings were soon repressed and 
even turned into the most buoyant 
and holy confidence in that Being 
^'who provideth food for the ravens 
when their young ones cry to God 
because they have no meat." 

It was purely for the interests of 
religion — it was for the spiritual 
and temporal welfare of his moun- 
tain colony — it was for. the pros- 
perity of the great Cambria Cath- 
olic settlement that he generously 
underwent all the hardships and 
risks of indebtedness even to the 
liability of unrighteous imprison- 
ment, — and all from the loftiest 
motive that ever inspired any 
sacrifice. His beloved flock have 
had before their eyes innumerable 



80 HIS DEBTS 

proofs to convince them how en- 
tirely disinterested he was in con- 
tracting these debts, and how not 
a dollar of them was incurred by 
his personal wants or wastes. His 
household was regulated by the 
strictest economy — the economy of 
the poor. He who had been des- 
tined "in princely halls to shine," 
was clad in the plain home-made 
stuff of the country. He had but 
one suit of superfine cloth, and this 
he never used except when during 
the session of Congress, he was 
wont to visit the Ambassador who 
happened at the time to represent 
at Washington the Emperor of 
Russia. His mansion, on the top 
of the Alleghany mountain, was a 
small miserable log cabin, not de- 



AND DIFFICULTIES. 81 

nied to the poorest of the poor. 
When he contrasted his present 
desolate wilderness-home with his 
former but now renounced gran- 
deur, he could truly say with the 
prodigal in the gospel, " How many 
hired servants in my father's house 
have plenty of bread to eat and 
I here perish with hunger." To 
liquidate the debts which he had 
contracted for religion's sake, and 
to save something for the poor, the 
accredited members of Jesus made 
him live in this perpetual penance 
or daily death, as St. Paul has it, 
'' I die daily." 

His little lone cabin, on the wild 
summit of the Alleghany, presented 
a strange contrast with the Gallit 
8 



82 HIS DEBTS 

zin palace near Moscow, which is 
thus described by a late traveller : 
''We left the city of Moscow 
and passed by the Kalouga road, 
through the long suburbs, filled 
with huge convents, hospitals and 
barracks, until we reached the villa 
of the Gallitzins. This is the most 
elegant of all the summer resi- 
dences of the Russian nobility, and 
for the natural beauty of its situ- 
ation, is unequalled in the empire. 
It lies upon the bank of the 
winding river, and is surrounded 
with parks and gardens. It had 
been coveted by the Emperor. His 
majesty offered its proprietors a 
large sum of money for this sub- 
urban paradise. The Gallitzins re- 



AND DIFFICULTIES. 83 

fused the money, but immediately 
offered the estate as a present to 
their sovereign. The delicacy of 
the latter would not permit him to 
accept it as a gift, and for a time 
the beautiful domain will remain in 
the possession of its ancient mas- 
ters." 

How noble his principles and 
practice during the trying period of 
his indebtedness! How unflinch- 
ingly he remained at his post, lean- 
ing upon that Providence that never 
deceived him. " For many are the 
tribulations of the just, but out of 
them all the Lord will deliver 
them." 

When urged by his American 
friends to make a voyage to Eu- 



84 HIS DEBTS 

rope, to obtain resources for his 
church-debts, he would invariably 
decline. The individual who draws 
up this ^'Memoir," once wrote to 
him on the necessity of his going 
to Europe for this laudable pur- 
pose, and tried to convince him 
that never did any ecclesiastic from 
America visit there on such an er- 
rand with such certainty of the 
most felicitous results. The very 
name of Gallitzin — his noble con- 
nexions, as well as the fame of his 
great sacrifices, it was told him, 
would secure him the most favora- 
ble reception at the European, 
especially the Catholic, Courts. — 
He wrote back in reply : 

'' I am afraid my voyage to Eu- 



AND DIFFICULTIES. 85 

rope must be deferred ad Grcecas 
Kalendas. Being in my 67th year, 
burdened moreover with the rem- 
nant of my debts, reduced from 
$18,000 to $2,500, I had better 
spend my few remaining days, if 
any, in trying to pay off that bal- 
ance and in preparing for a longer 
journey." 

He considered the desertion of 
his post, for any human transac- 
tion, would wear the appearance of 
shirking his pecuniary responsi- 
bility, and, what to him was infi- 
nitely worse, the abandoning of his 
loved flock. Nay, even when en- 
treated to return to his family, by 
an authority which he so much 
respected, his affectionate mother, 
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86 HIS DEBTS 

Princess Amelia, who assured him 
that she had obtained for his return 
the approbation of the Emperor 
Alexander, he respectfully but 
firmly declined. As he had made 
the sacrifice of parents, home, coun- 
try and all, he was determined that 
there should be '' no robbery in the 
holocaust." He had put his hand 
to the plough, and deemed it crim- 
inal " to look behind him " after 
the world and its vain amusements 
— its pleasures and its politics. 

With what heroic fortitude and 
patience did he not endure the for- 
feiture of his estates, on account 
of his becoming a Catholic and a 
priest ! In a letter to Bishop Car- 
roll, in 1805, he expresses his com- 



AND DIFFICULTIES. 87 

plete submission to the will of Grod 
as follows: 

" It was only the 1st of July I 
received your kind favor and the 
letters from my mother. In reply 
to these, I can assure your Lord- 
ship that I am perfectly resigned 
to the will of God, and do not feel 
the least concern about the loss of 
my estate, if it is the will of Provi- 
dence that I should lose it. I had 
long ago consecrated it, in my own 
mind, to the service of God and 
His sanctuary — His will be done." 

How well he bore his bitter dis- 
appointments — his blasted hopes ! 
He had, on one occasion, been as- 
sured, by the most undoubted 
authority, that soon would be for- 



88 HIS DEBTS 

warded to him the very handsome 
sum that was realized by the sale 
of his mother's precious collection 
of Grecian and Roman antiquities 
and other valuables. This pious 
lady had bequeathed them to her 
Confessor, Rev. Dr. Overberg, in 
trust to be sold for the education of 
the poor, or some other charitable 
object. This worthy clergyman, 
hearing of the privations under- 
gone by her son in America, and 
considering that his establishment 
of a Catholic colony at Loretto 
might well be called a religious 
foundation, resolved to appropriate 
to his benefit the proceeds of the 
sale. He acquainted the Princess 
de Salm with his intention, and 



AND DIFFICULTIES. 89 

solicited her to have recourse to the 
King of Holland, the. former friend 
and condisciple of her brother, for 
the purpose of inducing him to pur- 
chase the Gallitzin collection, as a 
valuable addition to his own ex- 
tensive one. The King, faithful 
to his promise of eternal friendship 
which, in his youth, he had vowed 
to Prince Gallitzin, as soon as he 
heard of his difficulties in America, 
at once agreed to take this very 
recherche treasure of antiques at 
$20,000. This sum was actually 
deposited by Rev. Dr. Overberg, in 
the hands of Prince De Salm, with 
the express understanding that it 
was to be instantly transmitted to 
the devoted missionary at Loretto, 



90 HIS DEBTS AND DIFFICULTIES. 

in the United States. But he never 
received more than one-half of this 
fund with abundant promises of 
more. 

With the most holy equanimity 
he pressed to his lips the chalice 
which his master had appointed 
him to drink, and if he had any 
regret, it was that of being de- 
prived through the injustice of men 
of the means of advancing the glory 
of God to the boundless extent of 
his wishes. 




Chapter X. 



mmml m^^ 



;URING the forty-one 
years that he inces- 
santly toiled on the Al- 
leghany mountain for the 
spiritual and temporal wel- 
fare of his beloved flock, all his 
people had the amplest opportu- 
nity of knowing him, and all, at 
this day must be convinced how 
inadequate even the language of 
eulogy is to describe the various 
virtues he exhibited, as father, pas- 
tor, teacher, guide. He was in the 




91 



ya PEESOXAL EELIGION, 

fullest sense of the phrase a man of 
prayer and a man of God. Rude 
and severe to himself, he was most 
kind and charitable to all others. — 
How affable did he not shew him- 
self to the poor man ? Was he not 
the father of the poor, the widow's 
and the orphan's friend? Like St. 
Gregory the Great, he had always, 
besides his own, another family to 
support, a family of poor, or or- 
phans, to whom he "gave their 
daily bread." The whole amount 
of the wreck of his fortune which 
he spent for religious purposes, 
could not be less than $150,000. 
Who in distress ever applied in 
vain to him ? Was it not to secure 
a provision for the poor, the suffer- 



VIRTUES. 93 

ing members of the Saviour, that 
made him lead a life of incessant 
self-denial? How promptly and 
profusely did he spend in his 
neighborhood the large remit- 
tances which, from time to time, 
he received from Europe. Had 
you waited on him the next day, 
you would not have found a single 
fraction of the copious sum. It 
had passed away into the lap of 
the poor as the shower of yester- 
day into the thirsty soil. Had 
some tyrant or intended plunderer 
of the Church visited his dwelling 
the following morning and asked 
him where were kept the treasures 
of the Church, as the martyr, St. 
Lawrence was asked, he could, with 
9 



94 PEESONAL RELIGION, 

the same holy Levite, pointing to 
the multitude of the indigent whom 
he had relieved, tell the tyrant: 
" These are the treasures of the 
Church.'' ^'Hi sunt thesauri Eg- 
clesimy 

On one occasion he had bestowed 
a considerable alms, on a seemingly 
distressed traveller who had very 
piteously applied to him for help, 
but who was afterwards found to 
have spent it in drink at a hotel in 
the village of Loretto. The hotel 
keeper at whose house this hap- 
pened, received back, to his great 
surprise, the identical five dollar 
note which, a short time before, he 
had given the Reverend Prince, on 
the occasion of the baptism of one 



VIRTUES. 95 

of his children. When he was told 
of the unworthy use which the beg- 
gar had made of his alms, he re- 
plied : "I gave it not to him — I 
gave it to Grod." 

The winter before his death had 
been extremely severe. Snow had 
fallen to an usual depth, so that, 
not only the poor, but many others 
in competent circumstances fell 
short of a supply of fuel. It is 
incredible how many he relieved. 
Hearing of the distress that pre- 
vailed, on this account, in Loretto, 
the man of Grod sent word for all 
who needed, to come to him ; forth- 
with his scanty store was thrown 
open to all. It might be truly said 
of him, as it was of the illustrious 



96 PERSONAL RELIGION, 

Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. 
''If his heart had been made of 
gold, he would have given it all to 
the poor. Therefore are his goods 
established in the Lord, and all the 
churches of the Saints shall declare 
his praise." 

Although naturally vif — of a 
quick and impetuous temperament 
he, like St. Francis De Sales, so far 
subdued himself as to be most mild 
and placable to all though always 
rigid towards himself. He always 
showed himself the Prince, as far as 
magnanimity is concerned, whether 
pardoning personal injuries or de- 
fending the injured. 

Being Vicar General, inter monies^ 
under Rt. Rev. Dr. Conwell, second 



VIRTUES. 97 

Bishop of Philadelphia, his inter- 
ference was sometimes solicited by 
clergymen, when the church of 
Western Pennsylvania began to ex- 
pand and priests were multiplied. 

Having, on a certain occasion, 
been appealed to by a clerical 
friend, who had suifered or be- 
lieved he had suffered injustice 
from a brother clergyman, a dig- 
nitary ; the Reverend Prince at 
once took the part of the oppressed, 
and ceased not his efforts until all 
matters were righted to the satis- 
faction of the appellant, who was 
the weaker and more humble liti- 
gant. 

He was most unmindful of 
wrongs, but most mindful of favors 
9* 



98 PERSONAL RELIGION, 

bestowed on him. He inscribed in- 
juries on sand and benefits on mar- 
ble. He often experienced crosses 
and losses, which would have been 
trivial to him if he had obtained 
his princely patrimony, but which 
sorely tried him as a professor and 
practiser of evangelical poverty. — 
Thus when his saw-mill, which he 
had built for the utility of the pub- 
lic, with great difficulty, out of his 
limited means, was in one night 
entirely consumed by fire, through 
the carelessness of the overseer, 
whom he had generously remune- 
rated for his former services, he at 
once received the apology of the 
'reckless employee and hired him 
again without making any reflex- 



VIRTUES. 99 

ion on Ms faithlessness. And, sub- 
sequently, when the same ^'unjust 
steward, whom he had appointed 
over all his goods," had fraudu- 
lently sold, for his own benefit, in 
Baltimore, a team of horses which 
he had confided to his care, he im- 
mediately pardoned him, when he 
fell at his feet, owning his delin- 
quency. 

His gratitude to his benefactors 
was conspicuous. Thus he would 
often declare his aifection and high 
regard for two prince-morchants of 
Baltimore, John and Thomas Oli- 
ver, who had relieved him in his 
necessities, and awaited his own 
time for re-payment of their gene- 
rous loans. This indulgence was 



100 PEESONAL EELIGION, 

the more creditable to them, as 
they were not of his religious faith. 
They are both honorably mention- 
ed in an auto-biographical sketch 
which is still extant. 

He also, in a letter to Bishop 
Carroll of 1809, records the names 
of the following charitable gentle- 
men of Philadelphia who came to 
his rescue, viz : John and Edward 
Carrell, Chief Justice Tilghman, 
Mr. Benjamin Morgan, a lawyer 
and a Quaker, who loaned him as 
much as disengaged him from his 
pressing demands. 

He reckoned among his foremost 
benefactors one of the late Popes. 
His Holiness, being made aware of 
his Princely character, and of his 



VIRTUES. 101 

noble endurance and sacrifices, very 
generously sent him a handsome 
donation. The Reverend Grallitzin 
called the attention of the writer of 
this to the language of the Brief in 
which His Holiness called him — 
'^ amplitudo tua)^ — ^your greatness. 

Smiling and displaying his fee- 
ble, delicately formed frame, " I 
think," said he, ''that the good 
Pope, instead of ' amjplitudo tua^ 
should have put tenuitas tua^'' — your 
littleness or tenuity. 

He was a most whole-souled, de- 
voted child of the Apostolic See — 
receiving, with the profoundest and 
most filial respect, all the oracles 
that emanated from it. To the de- 
cisions of every one of the Supreme 



102 PERSONAL RELIGION, 

Pontiffs — the Pastor of Pastors — 
he applied the declaration of the 
Council of Chalcedon : "Fetrus jper 
Leonem locuutus esV^ — Peter has 
spoken through Leo. 

He used to relate, with evident 
pleasure, an anecdote of the Rus- 
sian Ambassador at Washington or 
Charge d' Affairs, Baron Francis de 
Maltitz, who had advanced to him 
$5,000, and took his bond or obli- 
gation for this sum. The Reverend 
Prince visited Washington the next 
winter, when the Ambassador gave 
on his account a magnificent en- 
tertainment, to which was invited 
Henry Clay, with the elite of the 
city. Towards the close of the 
sumptuous dinner, the Reverend 



VIRTUES. 103 

Prince, who sat next to the Ambas- 
sador, asked him: ''Your Excel- 
lency, what about my bond for the 
$5,000?" His Excellency pulled 
the bond out of his pocket, showed it 
to him and then deliberately lighted 
his segar with it. This was all that 
was afterwards heard of his bond. 

If we admire in our Gallitzin 
the triumph of grace — if we are 
struck with his incalculable labors 
for nearly half a century — with his 
secluded self-immolation on the Al- 
leghany mountain, far away from 
the brilliant circles in which he 
once moved, there is one thing 
which we must even more admire 
in him — his extraordinary humility. 

Whenever informed by any one 
of the fame which his writings pro- 



104 PERSONAL EELIGION, 

cured him in this country, and 
among the Prelates and Priests of 
England and Ireland who loudly 
commended them to their flocks 
and caused them to be republished, 
he was wont to say, '' that he was 
glad the same Grod who enabled 
the illiterate to convert the world, 
has enabled me to say something 
to the purpose in favor of the Cath- 
olic cause." 

To see him — to hear him — to 
judge from the outer man, no one 
would ever discover that he was 
brought up delicately — born of no- 
ble parents — destined for the most 
splendid prospects that were within 
his grasp in his own country. In 
conversing with him, you would 



YIRTUES. 105 

imagine he was of the most obscure 
origin — of the lowliest pretensions, 
and to hint to him that you were 
aware of his high rank, would be 
sure to pain him, nay, almost to 
oifend him. 

Being intimate with him for 
twenty years, I have never known 
or perceived the slightest deviation 
in him, from the hidden life in 
Christ which he led. It was to 
avoid the honors and vain esteem 
of the world that made him lay 
aside the noble name of Gallitzin 
and assume the humble one of Rev. 
Mr. Smithy by which he was known 
for many years. How deeply had 
he learned humility at the feet of 
his Crucified Master. 
10 



Chapter XI. 



Ipction on baring of ih Satit of his 
j|otbr--|miMon of ih Saints. 



MONGr the charges 
brought by St. Paul 
against the heathen was, 
that they were " without 
aifection." Far be this 
disposition from the followers of 
Christ. Our Gallitzin was most 
remarkable for compassion and ten- 
derness of heart. We may easily 
believe that he must have been 
overwhelmed with the most poig- 

106 




DEATH OF HIS MOTHER, &C. 107 

nant grief and anguish on receiv- 
ing the sad intelligence of his 
mother's death — and such a 
mother. In a letter dated the 11th 
of JS'ovember, 1806, he thus writes 
to Bishop Carroll : 

''Your favor I received this 
morning, with the enclosed letters 
of my sister^ announcing the dole- 
ful news of that fatal stroke which 
deprived me of a most affectionate 
mother and your diocese of a most 
zealous friend and protector. The 
flood of tears it drew from my eyes 
were chiefly tears of joy and exul- 
tation at the happy exchange she 
made after long continual suffer- 
ings of every kind. Thanks be to 
God, I was suflBiciently prepared by 



108 DEATH OF HIS MOTHER, 

several letters from friends in 
Philadelphia, Baltimore, &c., early 
in September. In conjunction with 
Rev. Mr. Heilbrun, I celebrated 
her funeral three successive days 
in as splendid a manner as the nar- 
rowness of mv circumstances ad- 
mitted. The church was crowded, 
and the piety of the faithful con- 
tributed a considerable sum for 
masses for the benefit of her de- 
parted, though I trust already 
happy soul. I beg of your Lord- 
ship to accept of this watch, a most 
excellent one of its kind, belonging 
to my father ; no body in fact is 
more entitled to it than your Lord- 
ship, that have been a father to me, 
and more than my real father, ac- 
cording to the flesh." 



IMITATION OF THE SAINTS. 109 

In this tribute to his mother, we 
fancy we almost see realized the 
scene of Augustine weeping over 
and offering prayers and sacrifices 
for his sainted mother Monica, as 
he tells us in his Confessions : '^ I 
closed her eyes, and a very great 
grief then began to flow out in 
tears. . . . And if any one shall 
find it to be a sin that I wept for 
my mother some small part of an 
hour, who so many years had wept 
for me, let him not deride me for 
it, but rather, if his charity be 
great, let him weep also for my 
sins to Thee, the common Father of 
all the brethren of thy Christ." 

As he had ta^en for his models 
the lives of the Saints, the Charles 
*10 



110 DEATH OF HIS MOTHER, 

Borromeos, the Francis of Sales, 
the Vincent of Pauls, so did he, 
like them, daily aspire to perfec- 
tion. Like them was he distin- 
guished for vital piety, and, above 
all, for his lively and tender devo- 
tion towards the Virgin Mother of 
our Lord. He lost no opportunity 
of extolling her perfections. He 
endeavored to be an imitator of her 
as she was of Christ. He, every 
evening, recited her Rosary with 
the Litany of the Saints before 
his household. He was wont fre- 
quently to inculcate this beautiful 
devotion to his people, and all 
other pious observances in honor 
of " our tainted Nature's solitary 
boast" 



IMITATION OF THE SAINTS. Ill 

The chapel in which he said daily 
mass, he dedicated to God under 
the patronage of this ever glorious 
Virgin " whom all nations were to 
oall blessed." It was in honor of 
her that he gave to the town which 
he founded the name of Loretto, 
after the far-famed Loretto which, 
towering above the blue waves of 
the Adriatic, contains the sainted 
shrine of Mary's humble house at 
Nazareth, once the scene of the 
great Mystery of the Incarnation, 
and which the Italian mariners, as 
they pass to encounter the perils of 
the deep, or as they return in safety 
from them, salute, chanting the joy- 
ous hymn, "Ave Maris Stelh^ 



Chapter XII. 
astoral lelations. 

I!#^OW indefatio-ablv viai- 
^^ lant and provident he 
was in promoting the spi- 
ritual and temporal wel- 
fare of his flock, he has left 
behind him enduring evidences to 
shew. He was unwearied in his 
solicitude to guard his congregation 
against the contagion of the world, 
and preserve it from the vain fash- 
ions and noxious customs that con- 
taminate cities and large towns. — 
The slightest attempt towards the 

112 




PASTORAL RELATIONS. 113 

introduction, into his parish, of 
these profane novelties and expen- 
sive follies,^ was sure to be noticed 
by him and instantly checked. — 
How quick and wakeful he was to 
detect and denounce even the very 
semblance of scandal and all them 
that work iniquity. ^'Who is weak, 
he could say, and I am not weak ? 
Who is scandalized and I am not 
on fire.^' 

He was singularly zealous in in- 
sisting on the necessity of mani- 
festing the profoundest reverence, 
the strictest propriety in the house 
of God. All who knew him (and 
there are still some living that did) 
well remember his noble and ma- 
jestic mien and reverential air, 



114 PASTORAL RELATIONS. 

when officiating at the altar of the 
Lord of Hosts. 

On one occasion, as he was per- 
forming the ceremony of aspersion 
of the Holy Water before Mass, 
his small, piercing eye chanced to 
light upon a lady very unbecom- 
ingly attired. In his irrepressible 
zeal, he threw a handkerchief to- 
wards her to intimate to her to 
dress more modestly — to appear 
more respectful before the Divine 
Presence in the Tabernacle. "Z^- 
lus domus tuce comedit me^^ — *' Zeal 
for thy house hath eaten me up.'' 
To teach all humility in the tem- 
ple of God's glory — to make rich 
and poor feel that all were equal 
at church — on a dead level — he 



PASTOKAL RELATIONS. 115 

would allow no distinctions what- 
ever — no pews — no benches — not 
even fire during the almost Rus- 
sian winters of the Alleghany. — 
The least departure from propriety 
during public worship could not 
escape his eagle eye, and the trans- 
gressor, of high or low degree, 
would receive from him a look and 
lesson never to be forgotten; ''for 
he loved the beauty of God's house 
and the place where His glory 
dwelleth." 

How zealous he was to promote 
temperance among his parishioners 
is well known. There is no one 
that experienced more horror at 
intemperance than he did — none 
felt or viewed with more pain the 



116 PASTORAL RELATIONS. 

wide-spread desolation and ruin it 
leaves behind in its withering track. 
Such and so great were his eflforts 
in arresting the tide of intemper- 
ance on all befitting occasions, 
that he may be said to have an- 
ticipated the labors of Father Mat- 
thew, the Apostle of temperance. 
Denunciations against this degra- 
ding habit, Sunday after Sunday, 
formed the chief burden of his fer- 
vid eloquence — -the staple of his 
preaching, so that, if he had lived 
in our day, he would have been 
one of the foremost* advocates of 
the Temperance Cause, and none 
would have rejoiced more at its 
well-earned victories — for he would 
have gone all lengths to save a sin- 
gle inebriate from destruction. 



Chapter XIII. 



jiodc of Iraticlling and fife on the 
||ission~|ntmor minb. 



HOUGH a splendid 
horseman — being 
brought up in military 
style, as an officer of high 
rank — he considered a fine 
horse, well caparisoned, as too great 
a luxury for him. '^Ri in currihus 
et hi in equis — nos autem in nomine 
Domini Dei nostri invocahimus'^ — 
** Some trust in chariots and some 
in horses, but we call upon the 
11 ^'' 




118 HIS Missioisr, 

name of the Lord our Grod." He 
kept no carriage. He followed the 
Apostle's mode of travelling — on 
foot — when the sick-calls were only 
a few miles from the parochial resi- 
dence, but when distant, he was, 
especially in his declining years, 
brought about to the infirm in a 
sleigh, sled, or some rough vehicle 
which resembled rather an old cart 
or Pennsylvania, two horse wagon. 
He once accommodated the author 
of this notice with the loan of his 
conveyance to bring him to JN^ewry, 
a village about thirteen miles from 
Loretto ; but the passenger found 
it exceedingly rough, and was glad 
to be allowed to walk the most of 
the way. 



HIS TRIALS. 119 

In a letter, dated 4th of Febru- 
ary, 1805, to Bishop Carroll, he 
makes the following allusion to the 
rambling kind of missionary life 
which he led during the first years 
of his ministry, and from this ac- 
count, we may judge of his gene- 
ral mode of travelling through the 
forests and fastnesses of the coun- 
try in quest of the dispersed Cath- 
olics : 

'' I am now in Aughwick settle- 
ment, about seventy miles from 
home, travelling on a sleigh, or 
rather sled, from one valley into 
another, until I go through all the 
congregations under my jurisdic- 
tion, which will keep me from 
home until the 12th or 13th." 



120 HIS MISSION, 

During these protracted mission- 
ary excursions, frequently his bed 
was the bare floor — his pillow the 
geers of the horses, and the coarsest 
and most forbidding fare consti- 
tuted his repast. Add to this that 
he was always in feeble health, in- 
firm and delicate in the extreme ; 
and it was a matter of wonder to 
all how the little he ate could sup- 
port nature and hold together so 
fragile a frame. A veritable imi- 
tator of Paul, '' He was in labor 
and painful ness — in hunger and 
thirst — in fasting often — in cold 
and nakedness." 

The trials of the inner man — 
interior combats from which God 
does not exempt his saints, not 



HIS TRIALS. 121 

even his well-beloved divine Son, 
as the awful scene in Gethsema- 
ni attests, were not unfrequently 
the portion of the mortified and 
well-tried Grallitzin. The following 
letter, written to Bishop Carroll, 
September 2d, 1807, will give us 
some idea of "his combats without 
and his fears within : " 

" My Lord : 

" With a feeble and trembling 
hand, and a sorrowful heart, full of 
the deepest and blackest melan- 
choly, I take up the pen to give 
myself the comfort and consolation, 
of addressing a few lines to your 
Lordship. I am hardly recovered 
from a severe spell of sickness 
11* 



122 HIS MISSION, 

which attacked me at Greensburgh, 
and which has left me so weak that 
I can scarcely crawl about, and 
have not been able to begin to say- 
Mass again. Rev. Mr. Heilbrun 
will be here to-morrow and stay 
with me a few weeks, until I gain 
strength sufficiently to discharge 
my duty. Permit me to implore 
your patience, and to beg of your 
Lordship to administer all the con- 
solation your charity will suggest 
to my poor broken and sorely 
afflicted heart. My constitution 
being weak, and my heart perhaps 
too susceptible of deep impressions 
from disappointments, losses, &c., 
I have been wonderfully low this 
great while, and I begin seriously 



HIS TKIALS. 123 

to apprehend that my days will not 
be very long. I can better feel 
than describe the gloomy and 
melancholy state of my mind, es- 
pecially since the death of my 
mother. The remembrance of for- 
mer times, her tender affection to 
me, her last dying expressions 
concerning me, my own solitary 
situation in the wilderness of the 
Alleghany, my sufferings and per- 
secutions here, conspire to over- 
whelm me with sorrow and melan- 
choly. my dear Lord ! for God's 
sake send me a companion, a priest, 
to help and assist me, for my heart 
is ready to break. If you have 
one that does not know a word of 
English, for my comfort and conso- 



124 HIS MISSION, 

lation — a good virtuous clergyman 
— a friend to help me to bear the 
burden." 

In his prolonged career, he had 
to grapple with difficulties and dan- 
gers of no ordinary magnitude, but 
'' out of them all the Lord deliv- 
ered him." His project of found- 
ing a Catholic settlement on the 
Alleghany mountain was decried 
and deemed the wildest of schemes. 
He suffered much opposition, even 
from the colonists themselves, who 
seemed to reproach him as the Is- 
raelites did their heaven-inspired 
leader, Moses. " Why have you 
brought us into the wilderness that 
you might destroy all the multi- 
tude with famine." But he heeded 



HIS TRIALS. 125 

them not. His was not a spirit 
that quailed at any obstacle or op- 
position to what he believed to be 
heaven's design, and the result 
shows 'Hhe counsel was of God/' 
and, therefore, men could not over- 
throw it. He commenced his for- 
lorn hope of a colony with but 
twelve heads of families, and what 
a harvest do we not behold spring- 
ing up from ''the mustard seed" 
which he has sown ! A Catholic 
population of many thousands — 
splendid and spacious churches on 
all sides — flourishing schools for 
both sexes, carried on by the pious 
Sisters of Mercy and the zealous 
Franciscan Brothers — more than 
one hundred priests laboring where 



126 HIS MISSION, 

he alone labored ; and last, though 
not least, an important branch of 
the great Benedictine Order, and 
all this accomplished in a region 
pronounced irreclaimably wild, 
hopelessly sterile, but now forming 
one of the most important counties 
of our great Keystone State, Penn- 
sylvania, when we bear in mind its 
inexhaustible coal fields, its bound- 
less iron ore treasures, its general 
mineral wealth, not to speak of its 
being the chief high-way and tho- 
roughfare of the immense traffic 
between the East and the far West 
and South-West. 

If the good shepherd lays down 
his life for his sheep, as the Prince 
of Pastors tells us, even this promi- 



HIS TRIALS. 127 

nent and finishing trait was not 
wanting in him. When we con- 
sider the sacrifices he made to gain 
souls to Christ, we can have no hes- 
itation in believing that he would 
have given this last best proof of a 
shepherd's love if required. But 
we may say, with truth, that he 
made this sacrifice, not only by his 
toils during his pastoral career, by 
spending and being spent for his 
precious charge, but by dying the 
death of a martyr to his zeal in 
their behalf. It is well known that 
the sickness which took him away 
from us was mainly occasioned and 
fatally terminated on account of his 
unremitting labors during Holy 
Week, in performing all the cere- 



128 HIS MISSION, 

monies of this solemn season, in 

hearing confessions, in preaching 

and long fasting, from which he 

could not be prevailed upon by his 

attending physician to desist, so 

t it may be truthfully said of 

hat he laid down his life 

^ep — he fell a victim to 

eal for his cherished 

'ernal interests he 

'life. 

the shepherd 
eciprocal. No 
^ ever more be- 

loved K.^ le than he was. 

All who stiix s^ive, who perso- 
nally knew him, well recollect with 
w^hat reverence and admiration all 
looked up to him. A word, a 



HIS TRIALS. 129 

glance from him when at the altar, 
would awe all into obedience. Nor 
was this veneration for him con- 
fined to the members of his own 
religion, it was largely shared by 
the professors of all creeds. He 
has been known to preach and ofifer 
up the Holy Sacrifice in places 
where there were hardly half a 
dozen of Catholics ; yet, if the 
smallest deviation from the deco- 
rum due the sacred functions and 
the place of divine worship oc- 
curred, he would use the same 
authority in repressing it as he 
would have done in the midst of 
his own multitudinous flock. And 
such was the general reverence felt 
for him, such was his commanding 
12 



130 HIS MISSION, HIS TRIALS. 

appearance at the altar, that he was 
as promptly obeyed as he would 
have been by the humblest of his 
own parishioners. 






Ohapter XIV. 
jritinp in jjefcnre of ][eli3lfln. 



OTWITHSTANDITsTO 

his vast and varied la- 
bors in establishing and 
extending his continually 
increasing colony, he could 
find time to write and give to the 
public several valuable tracts in 
favor of the Catholic cause. Being 
a convert himself to the Church of 
Rome — well acquainted with error's 
Ways and wiles, and full of charity 
for the erring, he spoke warmly on 
the subject of religion. He loved 

131 




132 WRITINGS IN DEFENCE 

to expound and defend the faith 
which he himself, in the opinion of 
all, had so sincerely embraced. It 
is to his zeal for advocating the 
creed of his adoption that we owe 
the different works, so universally 
known, with which he enriched po- 
lemical theology. 

On a day set apart by the Grov- 
ernor of the State, for solemn 
''Thanksgiving and Prayer," a cer- 
tain minister of Huntingdon, in his 
sermon, on this occasion, went out 
of his way to attack what he called 
'' Popery." It is to this uncalled 
for attack — this display of mis- 
guided zeal that we are indebted 
for ''Gallitzin's Defence of Catholic 
Principles," which was followed by 



OF RELIGION. 133 

*^ a letter on scripture to a Protest- 
ant friend," and by ''an appeal to 
the Protestant public;" all which 
works, though a foreigner, he wrote 
in a good English style. The first 
work is certainly one of the best 
controversial compendiums that we 
have, and may rank next to the fa- 
mous " Exposition of Faith," by 
the great Bossuet, "the Eagle of 
Meaux." How highly it has been 
esteemed may be gathered from 
the fact of the repeated editions 
of it published in America and 
Ireland. Numbers of persons here 
and abroad ascribe their conversion 
to this little unpretending volume, 
and to the marvellous history of 
the author's life. It will be always 
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134 WRITINGS IN DEFENCE 

one of the best preliminary works 
which can be put into the hands of 
all sincere religious inquirers. 

In his small Tract, ''An Appeal 
to the Protestant Public/' he tells 
us the spirit that animated him 
in writing his controversial works, 
and which should guide all contro- 
vertists : 

" Religious controversies," says 
he, " when carried on in the spirit 
of charity, and with candor, are 
certainly of great utility, as they 
tend to dispel the clouds of error 
which obscure or deform the truth, 
and to unite those whom a diver- 
sity of opinion keeps at variance. 
Unfortunately, however, for the 
cause of religion, religious contro- 



OF RELIGION. 135 

versies do not often proceed fi^om a 
spirit of charity, and are but sel- 
dom expressed in the gentle accents 
of harmonious suavity, in conse- 
quence of which the breach is made 
wider. 

''When I published my ' Defence 
of Catholic Principles,' I was actu- 
ated by charity and zeal for my 
brethren in Christ, and I did not 
intentionally make use of any ex- 
pression calculated to hurt the 
feelings of any. I was not the ag- 
gressor, but compelled by duty to 
repel the rude and unprovoked 
attacks of an enemy of our holy 
religion. 

" In my defence of ' Catholic 
Principles,' I have attached myself 



136 WRITINGS IN DEFENCE, &C. 

to the most essential points of reli- 
gion only — those on which depends 
your salvation. And the proofs on 
which I have established these fun- 
damental points are principally 
taken from Scripture. Many of 
you, my Protestant brethren, have 
been candid enough to acknowledge 
that these proofs are unanswerable, 
and leave no chance for a reply. 
Convinced by these arguments, and 
giving way to the grace of God, 
some few among you have applied 
to me, and testified an eager de- 
sire to renounce their errors and 
become members of the Catholic 
Church." 



Chapter XV. 



P foppg Smtli-- fflonumctti 



FTER a life of such 
usefulness and abiding 
^"^ fruits — after a pastorship 
of such heroic sacrifices 
and crowned with such sig- 
nal success, we may well believe his 
last moments were filled with the 
highest religious consolation. As 
during his entire life, he contemned 
riches and all the goods of this 
earth, and employed them only for 
the purposes of God's glory and his 
neighbor's good, so in death did he 
prove himself a most consistent 




137 



138 HIS HAPPY DEATH, 

follower of Him, '' who became poor 
that we might be rich." The prince- 
ly scion of a princely race died poor. 
He had sent before him to heaven 
all his earthly treasures. He buried 
them in the bosom of the poor. He 
squandered them with a holy prodi- 
gality in doing good. It is recorded 
in the life of the founder and patri- 
arch of the American Church, Arch- 
bishop Carroll, whom he so much 
admired and loved as a father, when 
about to die, expressed a wish to be 
laid on the floor that he might ex- 
pire in imitation of the perfect pov- 
erty of his Lord on the Cross. This 
was the model and exemplar of our 
Gallitzin in life and death. He 
used to say that ''in proportion as 



MONUMENT. 139 

we in our life approach Archbishop 
Carroll, we approach perfection." 

While memory endures the writer 
of this tribute, will never forget 
the edifying scene which he beheld 
when it was his melancholy duty to 
stand by the couch of the dying Gal- 
litzin, to close his eyes, and receive 
his parting sigh. He died his own 
executor — his works follow him. 

After having received the ex- 
treme rites of the Church, with the 
dispositions of a saint, he seemed to 
say and feel with holy Simeon, 
" now thou dost dismiss thy serv- 
ant in peace." When he could 
no longer speak to his attendant 
friends about eternity and his heav- 
enly hopes, he frequently used to 



140 HIS HAPPY DEATH, 

make upon his person the sign of 
the cross — to indicate where he had 
placed his strong trust, viz: in the 
merits of his crucified Saviour. No 
minister of our Lord — no pastor of 
souls could use with more truth or 
hope the words of St. Paul. "For 
I am now ready to be sacrificed, 
and the time of my dissolution is 
at hand. I have fought the good 
fight: I have finished my course: 
I have kept the faith. As for the 
rest there is laid up for me a crown 
of glory which the Lord the just 
Judge will render to me and not to 
me only, but to all that love his 
coming." 

On his tomb, with rigid truth, 
might be inscribed the beautiful 



MONUMENT. 141 

words which the Church, in her 
Divine office, puts into the mouth 
of those glorious saints who have 
given up all for Christ. " Begnum 
mundi et omnem ornatum seculi con- 
temjpsi prompter amorem Domini mei 
Jesu ChrisUy " The kingdom of 
this world and the glory thereof, I 
have despised for the sake of my 
Lord Jesus Christ." 

As the prayers of the proto-mar- 
tyr, the expiring Stephen, procured, 
no doubt, the conversion of Saul 
and many other enemies of the 
faith of Jesus, so we justly assert 
that the bright examples of the 
conversion of Rev. Prince Gallit- 
zin, and of his religious mother, 
the Princess Amelia, have not been 
13 



142 HIS HAPPY DEATH, 

without their fruit in winning over 
many to Christ. It is certainly to 
their noble sacrifices for God and 
to their prayers that we must attri- 
bute, under God, the conversion of 
the illustrious De Stolberg, and that 
of different members of the Gallit- 
zin family who set at naught the 
terrors and proscription of perse- 
cuting Russia, where the Russian 
citizen, who becomes a Catholic, is 
punished to the uttermost in person 
and property, while the Jew, who 
is baptized in Russia, is, by the 
very fact, made a nobleman, accord- 
ing to' an ordinance of the Czar, 
Alexis Michaelowitz.* 

* (Russia in the 18th Century)— As an illustration of the 
tyranny of the Czars, who are the Popes of the Russian 
Greek Church, Prince Augustine Gallitzin relates that the 
Czar, Ivan Wasiliewitsch, ordered the clergy to give him 



MONUMENT. 143 

Madame Princess Alexis Gallit- 
zin^ was the first of all the Rus- 
sians to become a Catholic and 
brave the terrors of the autocrat. 
She was the widow of Prince Alexis 
Gallitzin, who gained for Russia 
the famous victory of Pultowa. — 

liberal aid towards the Turkish war. They refused. He 
immediately issued a decree commanding twenty of the 
chief dignitaries to fight with twenty bears, which was in- 
humanly executed. After this slaughter, the clergy showed 
themselves quite obedient — such the slavery of the Rus- 
sian Greek Church which totally depend upon the Czar. 

♦Madame Swetchine makes, in her beautiful letters, the 
following remarks upon the death of her friend, the Prin- 
cess Alexis; mother of Madame Gallitzin, the Nun of the 
Sacred Heart, whose edifying career and holy death are so 
well known in the United States : 

"If I might make a suggestion, I would entreat you to 
commit to paper a few dates, a few words, some slight 
sketch, for the sake of preserving the memory of that holy 
woman. I know well that she nelds it not, and that all 
which concerns her now is, that her name be inscribed in 
the book of life; but for us, and those who are to come 
after us, it is a great consolation to know something of our 
elders in the faith. As long as we are ignorant of their 
character, their vocation, and the acts of their lives, they 
live for us in an abstract state; and abstractions, as you 
well know, do not touch the heart." 



144 HIS HAPPY DEATH, 

Her example was followed by her 
sisters, Countess Rastopchine and 
Protasof, and the Princess Vasilt- 
chikof, her eldest son. Prince Peter, 
and her daughter, who became a 
^un of the Sacred Heart — founded 
several religious establishments in 
the United States, and illustrated 
by her virtues different houses of 
this Holy Order in JS^ew York, 
Philadelphia, Conewago and New 
Orleans, where she, after a life of 
labor and love, died a most edify- 
ing death. To these noble converts 
to Catholicism we must also add 
the name of Prince Augustine Gal- 
litzin, who published a very inter- 
esting work entitled " Russia in the 
Eighteenth Century," in a note to 



MONUMENT. 145 

which he thus expresses his hope 
for the conversion of that country. 
After describing the degeneracy of 
the Greek clergy in Russia, he 
says : " It is impossible that supe- 
perior minds, whose number, thank 
God, is always considerable in Rus- 
sia, after having conscientiously 
carried their investigations to the 
evident inferiority of their church, 
should not be led to acknowledge 
that this inferiority proceeds from 
its acquiescence in the rebellion of 
Photius, so fatal to Europe and to 
civilization, and consequently her 
revival is attached to her reconcil- 
iation with that church which even 
Mons. Tutchef confesses, is the root 
of the world — la racine du monde.^^ 
13* 



146 HIS HAPPY DEATH, 

To practise .virtue, to serve Grod 
under the most favorable circum- 
stances — to take up the cross and 
renounce all for His sake, even 
when we are surrounded by every 
thing calculated to lead us to Grod, 
and confirm us in his fear and love, 
would still be a* work of the great- 
est difficulty and merit. If we 
were even placed in a religious 
community of the most holy and 
fervent souls, to overcome our 
wicked nature — to subdue passion 
and every evil propensity would 
still be deemed a great victory of 
divine grace and entitled to a great 
reward ; but this victory would be 
infinitely greater, and the reward, 
the crown incomparably brighter, 



MONUMENT. 147 

were we placed in a position the 
most unpropitious to salvation, and 
of the most perilous kind. The 
holy Scriptures award the palm of 
praise only to him who could trans- 
gress and hath not transgressed; 
who could do evil and hath not 
done evil." 

The lot of our noble friend, the 
Rev. Prince Gallitzin, was cast un- 
der these circumstances. JNTever 
was any one exposed to sl more 
fearful ordeal. He was born of 
princely parents ; nursed in the lap 
of wealth and luxury ; the world 
put on her best smiles for him ; she 
laid before him all the temptations 
of earth — the goods of fortune — a 
princely inheritance — immense es- 



148 HIS HAPPY DEATH, 

tates. All the fruits of ambition, 
honors, preferments awaited him. 
Whatever rank and opulence and 
imperial favor could bestow, were 
at his feet. "All these things," the 
tempter said, '' I will give thee, if 
falling down thou wilt adore me." 
How adverse to salvation were 
such circumstances! — what seem- 
ingly invincible obstacles to grace ! 
When we behold him, then tramp- 
ling under foot all these things — 
bidding an eternal farewell to such 
brilliant prospects — disregarding 
all for the sake of Christ; in all this 
do we not perceive the transcend- 
ant triumph of divine grace ? It is 
.this that particularly strikes us in 
the history of our dear Grallitzin. 



MONUMENT. 149 

Modern times have not furnished 
a more memorable victory of the 
religion of Him, who, to them that 
are called, both Jews and Greeks, 
is the power of God, and the wis- 
dom of God. For the solution of 
this moral phenomenon — for this 
extraordinary and utter renuncia- 
tion of self and the world — for this 
power of religion over corrupt na- 
ture, and everything dear to carnal 
man — this ''bringing into captivity 
every height that exalteth itself 
against the knowledge of God," we 
must look only to the omnipotence 
of grace which, in some measure, 
makes its faithful recipient omnipo- 
tent too, and enables him to say, 
" I can do all things in him that 
strengtheneth me." 



150 HIS HAPPY DEATH, 

As the railroad cars of the Central 
Pennsylvania route pass through 
the great tunnel, and emerge thence 
over the cloud-capped peaks of the 
Alleghany chain of mountains, the 
listless, unsuspecting throng of pas- 
sengers are suddenly awakened by 
the cry of the conductor, when he 
sounds forth the name given to 
this station, Gallitzin ! and this, to 
use the words of a late reviewer, is 
all that is to remind them of the 
son of one of Russia's proudest, 
noblest families, who, for nearly 
half a century toiled so disinter- 
estedly for the spiritual and tem- 
poral welfare of his fellow men, on 
this same mountain. 



' MONUMENT. 151 

It is true his inconsolable flock, 
not long after his decease, erected 
to his memory an humble monu- 
ment, but not at all worthy of this 
great man — and it is to be hoped 
that a more suitable and superb 
one will soon mark the sacred spot 
where so much worth is interred — 
a spot worthy to be a place of pil- 
grimage, where all who want to 
have revived in them the spirit of 
faith, and sacrifice, and charity will 
often resort — locus pietatis — (the 
place of piety), as the tombs of the 
martyrs and confessors were called 
in the primitive Church. 

But, after all, the grandest mon- 
ument to him, one more perennial 
than brass or marble, is to be found 



152 HIS HAPPY DEATH, 

in the hearts of his people — in the 
vast and ever increasing Catholic 
community which his labors have 
founded, and which, through his 
merits, has been so singularly fa- 
vored, so signally blessed. " The 
just, we are told, shall be in eternal 
remembrance." This ever-during 
memory of them consists chiefly in 
the bright examples of every vir- 
tue which they have left after them. 
The life of the departed righteous 
is the perpetual and priceless lega- 
cy they bequeath to us, and even 
thus, our Gallitzin, ''though dead, 
yet speaketh to us" in his admira- 
ble and lovely life : 

** A life how useful to the Church he led — 

How lov*d when living— how revered when dead!" 



Chapter XYI. 



jis ifflbcjjuic^-'-Ife funeral lonors 




'd to laittt. 



feRlS holy death occurred 



on Wednesday, the 6th 
of May, 1841, and his 
interment took place the 
following Sunday — the very 
time when the Provincial Council 
for that month and year was sitting 
in Baltimore. The Rt. Rev. Dr. 
Kenrick, the Bishop of Philadel- 
phia, who was then at the Council 
was notified by one of the Rever- 
14 



153 



154 HIS OBSEQUIES, 

end Clergymen at Loretto, ^'that 
the great Missionary, the Apostle of 
the Alleghanies was no more;" and 
through this Prelate the sad news 
was announced to the assembled 
Fathers who expressed their heart- 
felt sorrow at the loss of so bright 
an ornament of the Church. 

He lay in state in St. Mary's 
Chapel for four days, during which 
time ceaseless crowds from all 
parts of Cambria county came to 
take a long last look of their be- 
loved pastor and father. The 
priests present were Rev. Messrs. 
Heyden, Bradley and Lemke, who 
participated in the solemn obse- 
quies. During all the time his re- 
mains were exposed to the venera- 



FUNERAL HONORS. 155 

tion of the faithful ; the priests 
present took it by turns, day and 
night, to recite prayers for the 
dead, to satisfy the piety of the 
crowds of people that were continu- 
ally arriving at Loretto to assist at 
the funeral rites. All the masses 
every morning were offered up for 
his departed soul. It would seem 
that all that could be done for him, 
could not half content his desolate 
flock — who, like her of Rama, '' be- 
wailing, could not be comforted." — 
His funeral sermon was preached 
to the weeping multitude from the 
text: ^^ In memoria ceterna erit jus- 
tus^ ''The just shall be in ever- 
lasting remembrance." After high 
mass, his precious remains which 



156 HIS OBSEQUIES, 

were laid in a zinc coffin encased 
with one of walnut, were, in accord- 
ance with his last request, deposited 
before the door of the small chapel 
which he had dedicated to the 
Blessed Virgin and where he used 
to say so fervently his daily mass. 
But this was only to be a tempo- 
rary resting place for them. They 
were afterwards with solemn pomp 
and most interesting religious cere- 
, monies, translated to the beautiful 
elevated site of the new splendid 
church which commands such a 
magnificent view of the high craggy 
cliffs of the Alleghany — of the fine 
convent of the Sisters of Mercy — 
the imposing buildings of the Fran- 
ciscan Brothers and the whole town 
of Loretto. 




iallxtnn Ponument. 



FUNERAL HONORS. 157 

The Latin epitaph on his monu- 
ment, was composed by Bishop 
Kenrick, and is as follows. 

SACRUM MEMORI^ 

Dem. A. E. Principibus Gallitzin — nat. XXII De- 

cemb., A. D. MDCCLXX. 
Qui. Schismate. ejurato. Ad. Sacerdotium. evectus. 
Sacro. Ministerio. per. tot. banc. reg. perfunctus. 
Fide, zelo. Cbaritate. insignis. Heic. obiit Die VI 

Maii, A. D. MDCCCXLI. 

SACRED TO THE MEMORY 

Of D. A. a Prince of the Gallitzin Family — born 

the 22d Dec, 1770. 
Who having renounced Schism was raised to the 

Priesthood. 
Exercised the sacred ministry through the whole of 

this region. 
And distinguished for Faith, Zeal, Charity. Died 

the 6th of May, A. D. 1841. 

14* 



158 HIS OBSEQUIES, 

We subjoin the following obitu- 
ary notice of him which appeared 
in the Catholic Herald soon after his 
demise. 

^'Died on the 6th of May, at his 
residence, at Loretto, Cambria Co., 
Penn., Rev. Demetrius Augustine 
Gallitzin, forty-one years pastor of 
the flock, in the midst of whom he 
expired, beloved and lamented. He 
was son of Prince Gallitzin, Minis- 
ter Plenipotentiary of Russia at the 
Court of Holland, and was born at 
the Hague, on the 22d of Decem- 
ber, 1770. At the age of twenty- 
two, he came to America, to prepare 
himself, by travelling, for the high 
station he was to occupy in life ; but 
he soon chose a different career, 



FUNERAL HONOES. 159 

and embracing the Catholic faith 
entered the seminary of St. Mary, 
Baltimore, to prepare for the holy 
ministry. He received the holy 
order of Priesthood from the hands 
of Dr. Carroll, then only Bishop of 
Baltimore, on the Feast of Saint 
Joseph, in the year 1795, and was 
subsequently employed in the sacred 
ministry at Conewago, whence he 
visited the immense district, where 
he fixed his residence in 1799. In 
the midst of a few poor families he 
began his apostolic labors, and lived 
to see several large congregations 
gathered around him, whose spiri- 
tual wants, in the remote parts of 
the county required the aid of seve- 
ral priests. His boundless charity 



160 HIS OBSEQUIES, 

has been experienced by thousands, 
who owe to him every temporal 
comfort — besides the blessings of 
religion. By his luminous writings 
he maintained the faith and suc- 
ceeded in bringing numbers to 
embrace it. The purity and apos- 
tolical simpli<!ity of his life, and 
his perseverance in the midst of 
difficulties and privations were not 
among the least powerful motives 
that influenced those who listened 
to his instructions. The tears of 
thousands attest that they are now 
bereft of a father. He is gone how- 
ever to the blessed kingdom for 
which he sacrificed the vain honors 
of this world. May ho rest in 
peace." 



FUNERAL HONORS. 161 

It may, to some, be a matter of 
surprise that a priest of such ex- 
alted merits was not promoted to 
any high position in the Church — 
to the Episcopate which is some- 
times conferred upon very ordinary 
men. In answer to this plausible 
objection, it may be said that Epis- 
copal honors awaited him in Eu- 
rope, if he had been aspiring after 
them. The author of this Memoir 
has read letters from European 
dignitaries urging him to return to 
Germany where his elevation to 
distinguished rank in the Church 
was certain, where his services and 
sacrifices were more appreciated; but 
his profound humility was always 
a great obstacle to his promotion. 



162 HIS OBSEQUIES, 

Besides it is certain that the Rt. 
Rev. Dr. Dubourg, formerly Bishop 
of N'ew Orleans and Saint Louis, 
strongly urged his appointment to 
a Bishoprick in Detroit or Pitts- 
burgh. And it was no small loss 
to the Church, that the plan of the 
excellent Bishop was never carried 
into execution ; for assuredly this 
great honor could not be conferred 
on a worthier subject. The Rev. 
Prince would have adorned the mi- 
tre in any country or in any age. 

He was much attached to his 
poor people, his mountain mission 
which he would not have exchanged 
for the highest post or dignity. In 
the decline of his days he often ex- 
pressed to the writer his intense 



FUNERAL HONORS. 163 

solicitude for the future of his dear 
Loretto, his large congregation and 
the temporalities of the Church. — 
He was strongly inclined, and had 
resolved to try to prevail on the 
Society of Jesus to take possession, 
with Episcopal sanction, of his par- 
ish and administer the same. He 
had always the profoundest regard 
for Archbishop Carroll, a Jesuit, for 
the Rev. Fenwick, and for all the 
members of this illustrious Order 
who " have fought the good fight" 
of faith, illustrated it by their shin- 
ing virtues and sealed it with their 
blood in every part of the known 
world. But the rather sudden, un- 
expected death of the Rev. Prince 
prevented him from accomplishing 
an object so near to his heart. 



164 HIS OBSEQUIES, &C. 

We may be allowed to terminate 
this hasty superficial sketch in the 
words with which a celebrated wri- 
ter closes the life of a Saint and 
JNTobleman which he had written : 
*' When we see a young prince, the 
darling of his family and country, 
sacrifice nobility, sovereignty, riches 
and pleasures, the more easily to 
secure the treasures of divine love 
and of eternal happiness, how ought 
we to condemn our own sloth who 
live as if heaven were to cost us 
nothing." 



The Rev. Prince Gallitzin has left a suc- 
cinct statement of his history — especially re- 
lating to what may be called his peculiar trials 
brought on by his family difficulties, as far as 
the loss of his estate is concerned. The author 
of this Memoir is in possession of it and values 
it as a precious relic. The hand-writing is 
beautiful and presents every evidence of being 
genuine. The statements in it are intended 
to satisfy his creditors of his integrity. They 
are all endorsed by his Excellency, the Russian 
Charge D'Affairfes at Washington, in 1827. 
We have drawn our facts principally from this 
source and we shall give it entire — with the 
exception of what we have already laid before 
our readers — which it is not necessary to re- 
peat. 

" Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, the only son 
of Prince Demetrius of Gallitzin, Chamberlain 

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166 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

of her Majesty the Empress Catharine, Privy 
Councillor, and her Ambassador at the Court 
of the Netherlands, &c., &e., &c., was from 
his early infancy raised in splendor and never 
knew, until he was nearly 22 years of age, 
what it was to want the necessaries or even 
the luxuries of life — destined from his birth for 

the profession of arms &c., &c., &c. 

In 1799, D. A. Gallitzin, removed to the 
Western side of Alleghany mountain with the 
view of forming, in that part of the country, 
then a perfect wilderness, an establishment for 
the benefit of Catholics, the most of whom 
were too poor to purchase land in the lower 
counties. From that time to the present day, 
he has spent all his labor and his income in 
promoting that object, and with the help of 
Divine Providence, he has succeeded beyond 
his most sanguine expectations, and has rea- 
son to thank kind Providence for having been 
its humble instrument in raising some from 
poverty to a comfortable way of living, and in 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 167 

changing a wilderness, a most dreary forest 
into a flourishing country which now forms a 
separate county. 

However, whilst he was helping others, he 
forgot to provide for himself and finds himself 
in his old age in a very perplexed situation, 
destitute of means to satisfy the just claims of 
his creditors, and himself on the brink of ex- 
treme misery. He feels very unhappy at the 
thought that his creditors reflect upon him 
and cannot perhaps reconcile his conduct with 
the principles of honesty and integrity. 

From motives of delicacy, he did not wish 
to enter upon an explanation which could 
clear his own character, only by exposing that 
of others, and of persons near and dear to 
him. However, after long and serious reflec- 
tions, after a struggle of several months, find- 
ing himself, property and character in the 
most imminent danger, he has come to the 
determination, to enter upon a full explana- 
tion of the subject. The die is cast, the mys- 



168 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

terv must be revealed and D. A. Gallitzin 
trusts that his creditors " will unanimously ac- 
quit him of the guilt of dishonesty, and even 
if they should lay imprudence to his charge, it 
will be that kind of imprudence which some of 
the most prudent could hardly guard against. 
On the 16th of March, 1803, his father, 
Prince Demetrius of Gallitzin, departed this 
life after three hours sickness, leaving him no 
time to dispose of his property, the whole of 
which in virtue of the marriage contract dated 
August 14th, 1768, was to fall into the hands 
of his mother, as a life estate, and after her 
decease, to become principally the property 
of D. A. Gallitzin, his sister being by the laws 
of Russia only entitled to one-tenth part of 
the real or immoveable and to one-eighth of 
the personal or moveable property. However 
his relations in Russia taking advantage of his 
absence, at so great a distance, and of several 
other circumstances which seemed to favor 
their plans, took possession of the property 



AlSr AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 169 

and refused to give it up to his mother, which 
compelled him to bring suit against them. — 
With the advice of his mother, D. A. Gallit- 
zin appointed the three following gentlemen, 
with a general power of attorney to act for 
him as circumstance might require, viz: his 
Excellency Baron De Furstenberg, formerly 
Prince Minister, Vicar General, &c., &c., &c., 
to the Elector of Cologne, and the Imperial 
Counts Leopold of Stolberg and Clemens Au- 
gustus de Mervelt. If he had selected among 
thousands on the whole continent of Europe, 
he could not have made a better choice. The 
Princess Amelia, his mother, departed this life 
April 2Yth, 1806, whilst the suit was still pend- 
ing before the Senate of St. Petersburgh. The 
same suit was finally determined in 1807, — a 
report on that important subject was made by 
his three agents .... (This has already been 
given.) 

Shortly after that period, the determination 
of the suit, his sister wrote to him : " This 

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170 AN AUTOBIOGEAPHY. 

sentence of the Court which I know is per- 
fectly in accordance with your feelings and I 
can say also with your interest, leaves some 
uneasiness on my mind for fear that I should 
be called out of this world before I can have 
sold the property and thus saved it for you, 
as the law does not give me liberty, either to 
give the property away or to dispose of it by 
will. The wish then, to take the necessary 
measures to secure you in all contingencies, 
and the repeated assurances that this could 
not be done, without my personal appearance 
here, in St. Petersburgh, prevailed with me to 
undertake this long journey of 600 leagues, 
(1800 miles,) notwithstanding the weakness 
of my health. I repeat it, you may be quite 
easy. You are too good a brother to doubt 
of my good will and of the sincerity of my 
affection for you, and I am sure, if the case 
was reversed, that you would do all in your 
power for me . . . but perhaps you may doubt 
and with good reason my capacity in trans- 



AN AUTOBIOGEAPHY. 171 

acting business. Here also yon may be per- 
fectly easy, as I do not take a step, without 
the advice of some eminent characters, who 
are well acquainted with this country, its laws 
and customs." From that day, D. A. Gallit- 
zin considered himself fully secured, as it were 
re-instated in his birth-right. He received 
the three succeeding years the following re- 
mittances : in 1809,5000 roubles, $1596 ; in 
1810, 5000 roubles, $1111 ; in 1811, 5000 
roubles, $963. 

The smallness of these remittances was sa- 
tisfactorily accounted for on the ground of her 
relations having scattered the moneys belong- 
ing to the estate, and throwing so many diffi- 
culties in the way to prevent the sale of the 
property. 

In 1812, Russia was invaded by Napoleon 
and the country about Moscow so completely 
devastated, that the property of his sister be- 
came and remained unproductive for some 
years. Until 1817, he received neither remit- 



172 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

tances nor letters. At last came the long- 
wished for news of the sale of the property in 
a letter dated Sept. 25th, 1817, which con- 
tains the following passage. 

"In order to save the property for you, 
after I am gone, I have sold it." 

And because he had written some letters to 
his sister in which he complained of being left 
so many years destitute, (he not knowing the 
cause of it,) she adds, after complaining of his 
harshness and suspicion : 

"However we will say no more about it. 
I know that a very great distress will some- 
times overcome us and cause us to become 
very bad humored and full of suspicion. Only 
remain friendly and good to me and believe 
firmly in my sincere friendship, &c., &c., &c." 

The property being now sold, and sold to a 
person worth millions, D. A. Gallitzin consid- 
ered himself master of a handsome estate, and 
his only uneasiness in the year 18 IT, proceeded 
from his temporary inability of satisfying his 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 173 

creditors who began to complain seriously of 
protracted payments. Under such circumstan- 
ces he confidently applied to a gentleman re- 
nowned for his charity and generosity for the 
loan of about $8600, which was very kindly 
granted, and he obtained also from several 
other persons the loan of smaller sums. He 
well recollects telling the above gentleman, 
after receiving the said loan, that he now con- 
sidered himself clear of his debts, having the 
undoubted certainty, in his mind, that for 
hundreds he owed thousands would shortly 
flow into his hands. 

About May 1st, 1818, the Princess Mary 
Ann of Gallitzin, then about 48 years old, 
married the Prince of Salm — Reififersheid — 
Krautheim. About two weeks afterwards, 
she wrote a letter to D. A. Gallitzin, contain- 
ing the following passage, after mentioning 
the alteration of her state of life : 

*' My new state of life will not cause the 
least alteration between you and me. My 



174 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

husband wishes that I should keep control 
over my property and declared before the mar- 
riage that you should loose nothing by it." 

D. A. Gallitzin, although not relishing the 
above news, still continued perfectly easy and 
satisfied, with regard to his own safety, and 
now waited in anxious expectation to receive 
his share of his father's property, as also the 
half of his mother's property, left to him 
nominally by his mother's last will, of which 
Count Frederick De Stolberg, (one of his own 
agents,) was left executor. It is here neces- 
sary to mention that the Princess, his mother, 
besides other valuables, owned a very precious 
collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, 
which she, on her death bed, April, 1806, de- 
livered into the hands of the Rev. Bernard 
Overberg, Dean of St. Mary's, &c., with the 
injunction to have it applied as a pious foun- 
dation for the education of the poor, or some 
other pious purpose. This gentleman, as a 
man of sense, considering that it would be 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 175 

preposterous to apply said property for the 
benefit of strangers, whilst the deceased lady's 
son was suffering under a weight of debts, re- 
solved to have the collection of antiquities 
sold for the benefit of D. A. Gallitzin, con- 
sidering moreover that said Gallitzin's estab- 
lishment at Loretto, might well be called a 
pious foundation. He communicated his in- 
tentions to the Princess of Salm, and desired 
her to apply to the king of the Netherlands, 
D. A. Gallitzin's former friend and playmate, 
and to offer him for sale the valuable treasure 
of antiquities. The king agreed to take the 
collection at 50,000 Holland guilders, and 
paid the purchase money into the hands of 
Prince De Salm, for D. A. Gallitzin. The 
Rev. Dr. Overberg took a receipt from the 
Prince and Princess of Salm, for the collec- 
tion of antiquities, and a written promise from 
them to apply the proceeds of the sale for the 
benefit of D. A. Gallitzin, dated June 25th, 
1819. 



176 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

Whilst those transactions took place in 
Europe, D. A. Gallitzin, although perfectly 
easy and secure, with regard to his future 
fate and ability to satisfy all his creditors, 
began to grow impatient at the long delay of 
payment, and continued to send letter after 
letter to his sister and to other friends, in 
order to obtain the so-long promised relief. 
Those letters excited great surprise among his 
friends, as it proved to them that the Prince 
of Salm had, contrary to his promise, detained 
the 50,000 guilders, as also other funds coming 
from Russia, which they supposed to have 
been long before that time in the hands of D. 
A. Gallitzin. The Rev. Dr. Overberg, im- 
mediately addressed a letter to the Prince of 
Salm, on the subject, requesting an explana- 
tion, and received an answer dated July 26th, 
1821, a copy of which he sent to D. A. Gal- 
litzin, in which he untruly asserts as follows : 

•' On the 20th July, 1821, I sent Prince 
Demetrius, my brother-in-law, a document 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 177 

signed and sealed by myself and my wife, 
promising him the quickest possible payment 
of 22,000 Berlin dollars. The measures al- 
ready taken by me give me a certain prospect 
of making remittances over Holland, &c., 
and in six months at the farthest, all the 
money will be in his hands." 

Encouraged by such promises, and his 
creditors urging payment, D. A. Gallitzin 
drew upon his brother-in-law, for 22,500 Ber- 
lin dollars, payable (he thinks,) at sixty days 
sight. This must have been in December, 
1821, or January, 1822. However, instead 
of money, he had the mortification to have his 
bills returned protested. At last, he thinks, 
in 1822, he received part of his money: in- 
stead of 50,000 guilders, ($20,000,) and inter- 
est. He only received 60,000 rubles, which 
produced $11,580, paid some time in the latter 
part of 1822. He also received a letter from 
his sister, dated Feb. Hth, 1822, in which she 
entreats him again to put his whole depend- 

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178 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

ence upon her sincerity and sisterly love, and 
not to listen to the suggestions of certain per- 
sons who she suspected had endeavored to 
raise suspicion in my mind against her sin- 
cerity. True enough, D. A. Gallitzin had 
received in 1821 or 1822, an anonymous letter, 
written he believes by a highly respectable 
French gentleman, a very intimate friend of 
his deceased mother, in which he states as 
follows : 

" That he considers himself bound in con- 
science to let Prince Demetrius know that the 
Rev. B. Overberg, in order to extricate him, 
has sold the whole collection of antiquities, 
left him by the Princess of Gallitzin, for a 
pious foundation, to His Majesty of the Neth- 
erlands, former friend of his youthful days ; 
that of course, the whole purchase money be- 
longs to D. A. Gallitzin, and is more than 
sufficient to pay all his debts, but that said 
money having got into the hands of * * * * 
is by them applied for their own benefit, ex- 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 179 

penses occasioned by their marriage, removing 
to Dusseldorf, payment of some of their own 
debts, &c." 

He also states, "that the same persons, 
since two years, receive their remittances regu- 
larly from Russia," and says he, '* I have reason 
to believe that not one cent of it is sent to 
Prince Demetrius." 

He was perfectly right, not one cent of the 
Russian property was ever paid to D. A. Gal- 
litzin, since the 5,000 rubles, in IRll, which 
produced $963, and all he received to this day 
of his own money paid by the king in 1819 or 
1820, is $11,580, instead of 50,000 guilders, 
$20,000, besides $1,800, the proceeds of 10,000 
French livres — being part of a debt which the 
Duke of Serentowed his deceased mother, and 
which, together with the above $11,580 was 
paid, he thinks, in 1822, into the hands of his 
principal creditors, Messrs. Robert and John 
Oliver, in Baltimore. 



180 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

The Jibove anonymous letter was a thunder- 
bolt, well calculated to arouse suspicion in 
the mind of D. A. Gallitzin, and to excite 
fears with regard to his future safety. How- 
ever, the arrival of remittances soon after of 
10,000, 25,000, 15,000 and 10,000, in all, 
60,000 rubles, ($11,580,) and the certain ex- 
pectation of a continuance of remittances to 
the filling up of the 50,000 guilders, ($20,000,) 
soon banished his fears, and restored confi- 
dence. 

His hopes, however, proved delusive. The 
next news he received was, *' your sister died 
Dec. 16th, 1823," after having left the whole 
of her property to her husband, with the 
charge of paying D. A. Gallitzin, 10,000 
rubles, (about $2,000,) and after the debts are 
paid, (which will never be the case,) then to 
pay D. A. Gallitzin, yearly, during his natural 
life, the third part of the income of the re- 
maining portion of the property. 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 181 

Thus ends the farce, and thus D. A. Gal- 
litzin is sacrificed in his old days, with debts 
to the amount of nearly $5,000, after having 
been deluded from 180Y, until 1822, by con- 
tinual promises, expressed in the most friendly 
and affectionate manner, the sincerity of which 
he would have considered it criminal to doubt. 

The question naturally occurs, what were 
D. A. Gallitzin^s agents doing all this time ? 
Why, nothing at all, it seems. It appears 
from their impressions in the letter to D. A. 
Gallitzin, of Feb. 1st, 1808, that such was 
their confidence in the friendship and affection 
of his sister, that they considered any inter- 
ference on their part as unnecessary, and their 
appointment as a mere matter of form. 

After suspicions had been awakened in the 
mind of D. A. Gallitzin, by the anonymous 
letter above mentioned, he sent letters after 
letters to the Count De Merveldt, his only 
surviving agent, to let him know his situation, 
and to demand his immediate interference. 

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182 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 

The Count De Merveldt, very much alarmed 
and aroused to a sense of D. A. Gallitzin's 
danger, immediately ordered his coach, and 
notwithstanding his old age and infirmities, 
undertook the journey to Dusseldorf, seventy- 
five miles, in order to urge the Prince of Salm 
and his wife, to satisfy D. A. Gallitzin's claim 
without any further delay. D. A. Gallitzin is 
now convinced that to this interference of 
Count De Merveldt, he owes the recovery of 
the $11,580. The said Count acknowledges 
that he never interferred before, never having 
the most distant suspicion that his interference 
would be at all necessary ; for he lived in the 
same city with D. A. Gallitzin's sister, where 
during twelve years, he heard her hundreds of 
times express the most anxious solicitude for 
her dear brother — the most eager desire to 
sell the Russian property in order to be able 
to divide with him, and to leave all to him if 
she died before him, when he actually saw her 
start on that long and fatiguing journey to St. 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 183 

Petersburgh, which she undertook, she said, 
on purpose, and at an expense of eight hun- 
dred dollars, in order to save the property for 
her dear brother. 

D. A. Gallitzin did not neglect to let his 
agent know that he never had as yet, (after 
16 years,) viz : in 1822, received one cents' 
worth of his mother's property left to him and 
his sister; share and share alike, by her tes- 
tament, under the executorship of Frederick 
Leopold Count de Stolberg, who was also one 
of D. A. Gallitzin's agents. Here at least he 
was perfectly safe and could not possibly be 
disappointed. So he thought until he re- 
ceived Count de Merveldt's last letter, written 
one year after his sister's death, which says : 

*' When the Princess of Salm, at the time 
of her removal to Dusseldorf, in 1819, caused 
the house and property at Munster to be sold, 
the title to said property was found on the 
Public Records to be vested in her alone, &c., 
&c., ifec." 



184 AN AUTOBIOGKAPHY. 

1. Query. — Why was not D. A. Gallitzin's 
name to be found upon the Public Record ? 

2. Query. — Who caused the above property 
to be recorded in the name of Mary Ann Gal- 
litzin alone? 

The Princess, mother of D. A. Gallitzin, 
died April, 1806, the title must have been re- 
corded some time that year. Does it seem 
that it was ever intented to fulfil her last will 
with regard to her son. A. D. Gallitzin only 
makes the present statement by way of apo- 
logy to his creditors .... 

Fallen from a high station — disappointed as 
to his certain expectations of a handsome for- 
tune and reduced to misery, he shall always 
feel the most lively gratitude for the long for- 
bearance and generosity of his creditors, and 
the only consolation, in his state of dereliction 
and poverty, will be that it was not occasioned 
by a dissipated way of living or by indulging 
in those luxuries which even the most rigid 
moralists would consider as nearly necessary, 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 185 

especially to a person of D. A. Gallitzin's ha- 
bits. He can safely say, that for a number of 
years, from a sense of duty to his creditors, 
such was the economical plan of life, he had 
adopted that he might well say with the pro- 
digal son in the Gospel : " How many hired 
servants in my father's house have plenty, &c., 
and I here perish, &c." Still his misery would 
have been greater, had not several friends 
reached out to him the hand of charity, and 
clothed him when he was in rags, and actually 
unable to show himself in any decent com- 
pany, and also otherwise assisted him." 

I, the undersigned, do hereby certify, that 
having read the original documents and let- 
ters quoted in the above instrument of writ- 
ing, I have found them conformable with the 
translations contained therein. 

J SEA L I Witness my hand and seal. 

Baron Francis de Maltitz, 

Charge d' Affaires of His Majesty 

the Emperor of all the Russian, 

Washington, January Sd-lbth, 1827. 



Notice of the Eussian Greek Chitrch. 

As the Rev. Prince Gallitzin was born in 
this Church, a condensed account of it will 
not be without interest to the readers of this 
Memoir ; we shall take it from a work of his 
relative, Prince Augustine Gallitzin, which is 
entitled, '' Russia in the 18th Century, unpub- 
lished Memoirs on the reigns of Peter the 
Great, Catharine the 1st and Peter the 3d." 

The state of the Russian Greek Church, 
when Peter the 1st ascended the throne, was 
almost the same as it has always been, only 
that Ivan Wasiliewitsch had already such an 
ascendency over the clergy, that the Czars 
considered themselves the heads of the Church. 
In the year 1555, he fixed the revenues of the 
Archbishops without consulting the Patriarch 
of Constantinople, or the Metropolitan of 
Moscow, and being informed that the clergy 
cried out against him, representing him as 
anti-christ to the people, and his ordinance as 
a most outrageous injustice, which demanded 

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APPENDIX. 187 

vengeance from God, he employed a method 
of his own to make his clergy more docile and 
obedient : this was to oblige twenty priests to 
^ enter the arena to combat with twenty bears. 
The occasion for their undergoing this pun- 
ishment was soon ofifered. A short time after 
these public cries against him, being involved 
in war with the Turks, he solicited the clergy 
to contribute to his necessity by a gratuitous 
gift They, one and all excused themselves, 
declaring they had nothing left, and as they 
cast new seeds of animosity among their flocks 
against the Czar, urging them not to con- 
tribute anything towards the expenses of the 
war, the Czar being informed of all this, 
ordered twenty of the principal clergy to be 
selected to fight with bears. He accordingly 
caused a high stone wall to be constructed 
round a large space of ground into which suc- 
cessively one of the twenty ecclesiastics was 
placed with a bear, lance in hand. When a 
priest had fallen and was devoured, the bear 
was killed, and a fresh one let loose upon a 
fresh adversary, until the last was killed. 

This terrible execution, so consonant to the 
time, spread such terror among the clergy, 



188 APPENDIX. 

that they gave an exact account of their reve- 
nue, a gift of three hundred thousand rubles, 
and yielded to the Czar the villages and towns 
they possessed, and thus served at the same 
time to re-establish repose and tranquillity 
among his subjects. 

The Czar Ivan Wasiliewitsch, in order to 
make his clergy more tolerant, permitted the 
free exercise of all religion. 

He also compelled the Russian clergy, who 
formerly chose their own chief or superior, to 
give him the nomination of many subjects, 
among whom he would select one for this 
dignity who would be confirmed by the Patri- 
arch of Constantinople. 

Alexis Michailowitsch, abolished forever the 
custom of demanding the approbation of the 
Patriarch, in any case. 

In a book printed at St. Petersburgh, in 
1837, by Gowrianof, the relations of the 
Emperor to the Church, are clearly defined. 
The Emperor is the Patriarch, or Head of 
the Greek Russian Church, annointed with 
oil at his coronation, he can, if he pleases, 
celebrate mass, a fantastic notion which the 
Emperor Paul had, and which he could not 



APPENDIX. 189 

be prevailed upon to renounce, until Count 
Zostopchine told him that a Russian priest 
can only be married once, whereas, his Majesty 
was married twice. 

From all this, Prince Augustine Gallitzin 
concludes : '' It is impossible for superior 
minds, whose number, thank God, is always 
considerable in Russia — after being convinced 
of the evident inferiority of their Church, not 
to be forced to acknowledge that this inferi- 
ority proceeds only from its acquiescence in 
the Photian revolt, so fatal to Europe and 
civilization, and that consequently its regenera- 
tion is attached to its reconciliation with that 
Church, which even Mr. Tutchef cannot deny, 
is the root of the world." 



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190 APPENDIX. 



Letter from Rex:. D. A, Gallitzin to 
Mrs. G. G. Doll 

LoRETTO, Cambria Co., Pa.] 
April nth, 1839. ) 

My Dear Child a^jd Friend : 

Oh ! what pleasing recollections you recal 
to my memory. The happy days I spent in 
the family of Richard McSherry and his dear 
helpmate, as the Yoice at Mr. Livingston's 
used to call her. Yes my dear child in IT 97, 
I think in September, I became acquainted 
with your parents and very soon, a most inti- 
mate friendship was formed. I remained in 
that part of the country, spending all my time, 
either at their house, or at Mr. Livingston's 
from September until Christmas, when I had 
to return to Conewago, the place of my resi- 
dence. My view in coming to Virginia and 
remaining there three months, was to investi- 
gate those extraordinary facts at Livingston's, 
of which I heard so much at Conewago and 
which I could not prevail upon myself to be- 
lieve, but I was soon converted to a full belief 
of them. No lawyer in a court of justice did 



APPENDIX. 191 

ever examine and cross-examine the witnesses, 
more than I did all the witnesses I could pro- 
care. I spent several days in penning down 
the whole account, which on my return to 
Conewago, was read with great interest, and 
handed about from one to another, till at last 
(when I wanted it back,) it could no longer 
be found, in short it was lost and I had un- 
fortunately neglected to take a copy of it. — 
And now, after a lapse of 42 years you could 
hardly expect, that I could bring back to my 
memory, the whole well connected history of 
those surprising facts, and only remember a 
few detached facts, some of which may prove 
interesting to you. The first beginning of this 
business, was a destruction of property, by 
clipping, burning and removing, all done by- 
invisible hands. Mr. Livingston applied to, 
first, his Lutheran minister, for help, but he 
having candidly confessed his want of power, 
he applied to Protestant ministers of different 
denominations, some of whom promised relief. 
Among them a Methodist preacher, who went 
to Livingston's house, accompanied by some 
of his congregation, here they begun to pray 
and bawl, but was soon silenced and driven 
away by a shower of stones thrown amongst 



192 APPENDIX. 

them by invisible hands. After trying mini- 
sters in vain, old L., applied to a conjurer, la 
the South mountains, who promised to banish 
the evil spirits, if he (L.,) would pay him a 
certain sum of money, on the spot. L., very 
wisely refused, paying him any thing before- 
hand, but promised him double the amount, 
if he would perform the job. The conjurer 
would not agree. Poor L., went home much 
dejected and in consequence of so many dis- 
appointments, almost came to the conclusion, 
that Christ had no longer any true ministers 
on earth, and that those, who pretended to be 
such, were only imposters, he was determined 
henceforward never to apply to any one of 
those calling themselves ministers of Christ. 
A Roman Catholic peddlar, who happened 
one night to stop at L's., and who was much 
distressed by the noise which prevailed, almost 
the whole night at Livingston's house, tried to 
persuade L., to send for a Catholic priest ; 
but he answered very quickly, that he had 
tried so many of these fellows he was not go- 
ing to try any more of them. Your worthy 
father, Richard Mc Sherry, was one who over- 
came L's. obstinacy so far, as to permit him, 
to bring a priest to his (L's.) house. With a 



APPENDIX. 193 

good deal ado, Mr. McSherry prevailed on 
the Rev. Dennis Cahill, to attend at L's. — 
During his first visit, Mr. Cahill only said 
some prayers and sprinkled the house with 
holy water, on his going away, having one 
foot over the door sill and the other inside, 
yet, suddenly a sum of money, which had dis- 
appeared from out of the old man's chest, was 
by invisible hands laid on the door sill be- 
tween the Priest's feet, and beside, the house 
for several days became quiet. After awhile 
the noise and destruction beginning again, the 
Rev. Mr. Cahill paid them a second visit, 
celebrated mass, instructed them in the Catho- 
lic faith — and finally the work of destruction 
ceased. During one day at a tea party in 
Martinsburgh, an old Presbyterian lady who 
was one of the invited, told the company what 
was going on at Livingston's. To satisfy her 
curiosity she went to Livingston's house; how- 
ever before entering in, she took off her new 
black silk cap, wrapped it up in a new silk 
handkerchief — and when she opened it, she 
found her cap cut into narrow ribands. 

If any more circumstances come to my re- 
collection I shall communicate them to you. 

17* 



194 APPENDIX. 

Oh how happy I would be if I could* come 
to see you, but my age, (nearly 69,) and my 
pecuniary embarrassments forbid it. Since 
180*7, when the government of Russia passed 
a decree against me, robbing me of the whole 
of my father's property in punishment of my 
turning to the Catholic faith, I have passed 
these last 32 years of my life in struggling to 
discharge my debts, which in 180T,. amounted 
to $20,000, and are yet above $2,000, God 
grant that I may live to see them paid. To 
accomplish so desirable an object I am ob- 
liged to live very economically and to avoid 
all superfluities. 

I have a great many of your relations in my 
congregation. If you would undertake a jour- 
ney to this place, you would find yourself quite 
at home and what would surprise you, you 
would find yourself altogether in a Catholic 
country without any mixture of Protestants. 

Now I have answered all your inquiries, I 
therefore conclude with assurances of the great 
respect and affection with which I remain, my 
dear child. 

Your most humble servant and friend, 

Demetrius A. Gallitzin. 



APPENDIX. 195 



In one of his publications the Eev. Prince 
alludes in the following words to the facts 
and circumstances stated in the above 
letter : 

** I am acquainted with a very respectable 
man, formerly a Protestant, whom this ac- 
knowledged want of power in his minister, 
caused to forsake the pretended reformation, 
and with his whole family, to embrace the 
Catholic faith. For a considerable length of 
time he was persecuted, and his property de- 
stroyed by the agency of evil spirits ; the 
clothes belonging to him and his family, were 
seen cut to pieces by invisible hands, stones 
were seen moving across the room held by in- 
visible hands ; fire bursted repeatedly from 
out their beds at broad day-light — strange 
and frightful apparitions and strange noises, 
terrified them very often at night. 

The good old man reading in his bible that 
Christ had given to his ministers power over 
evil spirits, started from home to Winchester, 
in Virginia, and having with tears in his eyes, 

related to his minister (S 1,) the history 

of his distress, losses and sufferings, begged of 



196 APPENDIX. 

him to come to his house and to exercise in 
his favor the power which he had received 
from Jesus Christ. The parson candidly con- 
fessed that he had no such power. The good 
old man insisted that he must have that power, 
for he had found it in his bible. The parson 
replied, that that power only existed in old 
times, but was done away now. The old 
man, though living in this '' enlightened a^e," 
had not sagacity enough to understand the 
distinction between old times and new times, 
but according to your ministers, believed 
nothing but what he found in his bible. He 
therefore, rationally concluded that parson 

S 1 could not be a minister of Christ, and 

having left him, he applied to other persons 
calling themselves ministers of Christ, some of 
whom promised him relief. They came, prayed 
and read ; but they prayed and read in vain. 
Finally the old man having (through the means 
of a respectable Catholic neighbour) obtained 
assistance from a real minister of Christ, found 
the relief for which he had prayed so fervently 
and soon afterwards became a most edifying 
member of the Catholic Church. 



APPENDIX. 197 

Your minister would laugh heartily if you 
should relate the above facts, for with wise 
men of our enlightened age^ he has peremp- 
torily decided that miracles, &c., &c., are no 
longer necessary, and of course they have 
ceased. Since when, I did not learn ; nor did 
I ever find any passage in Scripture which au- 
thorizes the belief that miracles should cease 
altogether, or that evil spirits should never 
have it any more in their power to molest the 
bodies and property of men, as they used to 
do during the life-time of our Saviour and 
even after his resurrection." Acts v, 16. 

(Postscript to Gallitzin's '' Letter to a Pro- 
testant friend on the holy scriptures.") 



A curious circumstance at the commence- 
ment of the Reverend Princess mission- 
ary career. 

Conewago was the starting point whence he 
went forth to evangelize and catholicise differ- 
ent sections of Maryland and Virginia, and he 
returned at the end of his spiritual campaign 
to this same place, which was his nominal re- 



198 APPENDIX. 

sidence until he finally chose the Alleghany 
mountain for the portion of his inheritance. — 
He made many excursions into Virginia which 
then was a most dangerous State for a Catho- 
lic priest to enter, his life was perilled. Before 
the Rev. Gallitzin's time, it seems, that that 
part of it bordering on Maryland was occa- 
sionally attended by an Irish priest, named 
Qahill. There lived near Martinsburgh a Lu- 
t^i^^ran family of the name of Livingston. It 
would seem that some very singular occurren- 
ces took place at the residence of Mr. Living- 
ston, strange and alarming noises were heard, 
his property injured, his cattle destroyed, many 
articles of household furniture displaced, re- 
moved, an invisible hand with a shears or scis- 
sors went through the house cutting up the 
ward-robe of the family,* clipping the bed- 
clothes, quilts, &c. This continued for a long 
time. At length Mr. Livingston was induced 
by some of his neighbours, to call in the mini- 
sters of the gospel, but matters became worse 

* A stream of water running near the former residence of 
the Livingston's, is called to this day "Clip Creek" on ac- 
count of the circumstance mentioned. Some of the clipped 
blankets or pieces of them were kept and shown at Cone- 
wago for a long time. 



APPENDIX. 199 

after he did so. He was advised at last to 
try a Catholic priest. The Reverend Mr. 
Cahill visited the annoyed abode, said mass 
there, and the work of terror and destruction 
ceased, and Livingston "and his whole house 
believed." They became Catholics. 

The Rev. Prince Gallitzin, on hearing of 
this singular transaction, went from Conewago 
to the scene of this event. He spent a long 
time investigating the affair, and drew up an 
account of it which he brought back with him 
to Conewago, but which is now unfortunately 
lost. He was satisfied that it had a respect- 
able foundation. He alludes to it in one of 
his works. Many years afterwards a lady of 
a most respectable old Catholic family living 
in Martinsburgh, wrote to the Rev. Prince, to 
favor her with an account of this affair. It is 
to her request that we owe the preceding let- 
ter, which the Rev. Prince sent her. He was 
by no means credulous. He was gifted with 
rare acumen. And like all enlightened con- 
verts came over to the Catholic Church, only 
after the profoundest conviction, as his great 
sacrifices show. We give the letter for what 
it is worth. It will at least relieve the gravity 



200 APPENDIX. 

of the "Memoir." Let every one judge for 
himself. Those "were added to the Church, 
who were to be saved." 

In a letter to the same lady, the Reverend 
Prince, says : " Mr. Livingston moved from 
Virginia to Bedford county, Pa., about twenty 
miles from here (Loretto,) where he died in 
the Spring of 1820. I had mass at his house 
repeatedly, he continued to the last very at- 
tentive to his duties but did not receive the 
last rites of the Church in his last illness, 
which carried him off too quickly, to afford any 
chance of sending for a priest. 




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in the hands of Catholic Youth, 

,fl®=* It should find a place in every Catholic Household. 

^SP" It is admirably adapted for a Premium or Gift Book. 

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Moral and Instructive Tales, 

CHEAP AND UNIFORM EDITION OF 

Hendrik Conscience's Short Tales. 

In 8 vols, demi 80, cloth^ 75 cts. ; cloth, gilt sides and 
edges^ $1. The complete set, i7i boxes, 8 vols, cloth, $6. 
Cloth, gilt sides and edges, $8. 

The Publishers desire to invite especial attention to this New, 
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There is a pure morality throughout the \vork3 of this author, 
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1. Tfie JPooi' Gentleman. 

2. The Conscript and Blind Rosa* 

Two Tales in one volume. 

3. Happiness of Being Mich. 

4. Ttie Miser. 

5. Micheticketach and Wooden Clara. 

Two Tales in one volume. 

6. Count Hugo of Craenhove. 

7. The Curse of the Village. 
S, The Village Innkeeper. 



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